Twenty-five programs were submitted for the 2013 Spring For Music festival. Twenty-one programs were posted online (two orchestras requested that their programs not be posted). Six programs have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 S4M festival. They are:
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Marin Alsop, music director
(May 6, 2013)ALBANY SYMPHONY David Alan Miller, music director
(May 7, 2013)BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA JoAnn Falletta, music director
(May 8, 2013)OREGON SYMPHONY Carlos Kalmar, music director
(May 9, 2013)CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA with the MAY FESTIVAL CHORUS James Conlon, music director of May Festival
(May 10, 2013)NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Christoph Eschenbach, music director
(May 11, 2013)
NOTE: While orchestras selected are not eligible to apply for consecutive years, please note that the Albany Symphony and Oregon Symphony have been selected in 2011 and again in 2013.
You can see the submitted programs below. Click to see more details about each program, and rate and comment on the programs. Highest-rated programs are ranked in the sidebar. Programs will be posted until November 19. Orchestras are allowed to change their programs based on comments and ratings until November 19. While voters and commenters will not determine which programs are selected, ratings and comments will have an impact on the the selection process. S4M artistic director Tom Morris will announce the six orchestras selected in mid-December.
Program 1
Love
Pfitzner: Liebesmelodie (7:00)
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin (31:00)
INTERMISSION
Ades: Overture, Waltz and Finale from Powder Her Face (11:00)
Various: Three Selections from the American Songbook (12:00)
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (22:00)
Program 2
Supernatural
Ross Edwards: White Ghost Dancing (7:00)
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin (31:00)
INTERMISSION
Purcell: Suite form The Fairy Queen (20:00)
MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (26:00)
Program 3
Morton Gould: Concerto for Orchestra
James P. Johnson: Yamekraw- A Negro Rhapsody
(new orchestration by David Mallamud)
INTERMISSION
George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody ( New York Rhapsody)
John Harbison: The Great Gatsby Suite
Program 4
Luis Tinoco: From the Depth of Distance
Kamran Ince: Remembering Lycia (Piano Concerto)INTERMISSION
Dorothy Chang: Flight for Flute and Orchestra
George Tsontakis: Klezmer Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
Program 5
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Prelude & Liebestod (17:00)
Rouse: Der Gerettet Alberich (22:00)
INTERMISSION
Adams: Harmonielehre (40:00)
Program 6
Adams: Shaker Loops (26:00)
Higdon: Concerto 4-3 (19:20)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4, Op. 112 (1947 revision) (34:00)
Program 7
David Diamond: Symphony No. 3 (31:00)
Colin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan (16:00)INTERMISSION
Margaret Brouwer: Remembrances (15:00)
Christopher Rouse: Gorgon (17:00)
Program 8
Stephen Albert: Symphony No. 1, RiverRun (34:00)
INTERMISSION
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen: Partita Sinfonica (18:00)
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 6 (20:00)
Program 9
Charles Koechlin: The Jungle Book
La Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)
Trois Poemes, (3 symphonic poems after Kipling), Op. 18
- I. Berceuse phoque (Seal Lullaby)
- II. Chanson de nuit dans la jungle (Night Song in the Jungle)
- III. Chant de Kala Nag (Song of Kala Nag)
- For three vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra
La Course de Printemps, (The Spring Running, symphonic poem after Kipling), Op. 95
- I. Printemps dans la foret (Spring in the Forest)
- II. Mowgli
- III. La course (The Running)
- IV. Nuit (Night)La Meditation de Purun Baghat (The Miracle of Purun Baghat), Op. 159
Le Loi de la Jungle (The Law of the Jungle, symphonic poem after Kipling), Op. 175
Les Bandar-Log (Monkey Scherzo, symphonic poem for orchestra), Op. 176
Program 10
Love and the Ritual
Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemayá
Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Program 11
Poems from China
Min Xiao-Fen: Poems from T’ang for voice and pipa (World Premiere)
Zhou Long: Three Poems from T’ang (30:00)
- Hearing the Monk Zun Play the Qin by the Water
- Hut Among the Bamboo
- Song of Eight Unruly Tipsy PoetsINTERMISSION
Mahler: Das Led von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) (65:00)
Program 12
The Greatest Generation
Hermann: For the Fallen (with WWII images) (7:00)
Weill: Four Walt Whitman Songs (with Civil War images) (18:00)
Harris: Symphony No. 3 (18:00)INTERMISSION
Daugherty: Mount Rushmore** (25:00)
** The performance of Mount Rushmore will be preceded by an audio recording of Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaking at the dedication of the Mount Rushmore sculpture.
Program 13
Corey Dargel: Commission
Matthew Meyhan: Commission
Rameau: Excerpts from Nais
Program 14
Terry Riley: St. Adolf Ring
Program 15
Schreker: Prelude to a Drama
Alma Mahler: Songs (Orchestrated by Jorma Panula)
Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande, Op. 5
Program 16
Giya Kancheli: morning Prayers from Life Without Christmas
Gliere: Symphony No. 3, Op. 42 (Ilya Muromets)
Program 17
Claude Debussy: Printemps
Heinz Holliger: Siebengesang for Oboe, Orchestra, VoicesINTERMISSION
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Program 18
Messiaen: Les Offrandes oubliées
Ravel: Ma Mere l’OyeINTERMISSION
Honegger: Symphony No. 3 Symphonie Liturgique
Ravel: La Valse
Program 19
New commission- TBA (20:00-30:00)
Robert Nathaniel Dett: The Ordering of Moses (50:00)
Program 20
Lili Boulanger: Faust and Helen
Florent Schmitt: Antony and Cleopatra
Program 21
Lili Boulanger: D’Un Soir Triste
Lili Boulanger: D’Un Matin de Printemps
Behzad Ranjbaran: Violin Concerto (NY Premiere)
Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
