For release: Monday, January 23, 2012
SPRING FOR MUSIC ANNOUNCES
SELECTION of 2014 ORCHESTRAS
Plus
2013 NEW LINEUP OF ORCHESTRAS and PROGRAM
SPRING FOR MUSIC today announced that the orchestras chosen to participate in the
2014 festival (the fourth Spring For Music festival), which will run from May 5 to May 10, 2014 at Carnegie Hall are:
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, Alan Gilbert, music director
Monday, May 5, 2014
SEATTLE SYMPHONY, Ludovic Morlot, music director
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, Arild Remmereit, music director
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Alexander Mickelthwate, music director
Thursday, May 8, 2014
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and MAY FESTIVAL CHORUS,
James Conlon, music director Cincinnati May Festival
Friday, May 9, 2014
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Manfred Honeck, music director
Saturday, May 10, 2014
SPRING FOR MUSIC is an annual festival each May at Carnegie Hall celebrating and exhibiting the quality and creativity of North American orchestras. During its inaugural season, Spring For Music was categorized by the press as “bold,” “gripping,” “vibrant,” inspired,” “virtuosic,” “brilliant.” The New Yorker hailed it as “fresh at every turn,” while The New York Times stated that Spring For Music gives “power to the listener.” The festival, which is presented in partnership with Carnegie Hall, began in 2011 and has made the commitment to continue yearly through 2014. Tickets originally priced at $25 for any seat in the house still remain at this very popular price.
FOR 2013 (the third Spring For Music festival), there have been some changes in the orchestras being presented.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be part of the 2013 festival, replacing the Cincinnati Symphony and May Festival Chorus which asked to be deferred to the 2014 season due to a scheduling change regarding the renovation of Music Hall in Cincinnati. Spring For Music was able to accommodate their request, and happily Detroit was now available to accept this invitation. The complete lineup for 2013 with complete programs is as follows:
Monday, May 6, 2013
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Marin Alsop, music director
John Adams: Shaker Loops
Jennifer Higdon: Concerto 4-3
Time for Three, string trio
New York Premiere
*****
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 (1947 version)
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
David Alan Miller, music director
John Harbison: Suite from The Great Gatsby
New York premiere
George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra
Kevin Cole, piano
*****
Morton Gould: Symphony No. 3
New York premiere of original version
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
JoAnn Falletta, music director
Giya Kancheli: “Morning Prayers” from Life Without Christmas
*****
Reinhold Glière: Symphony No. 3, “Ilya Muromets”
Thursday, May 9, 2013
OREGON SYMPHONY
Carlos Kalmar, music director
Narong Prangcharoen: Phenomenon
Kurt Weill: Seven Deadly Sins
Storm Large, vocalist
*****
Arnold Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Film Scene
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
Friday, May 10, 2013
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leonard Slatkin, music director
“IVES IMMERSION”
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 1
*****
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2
*****
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3
*****
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 4
Saturday, May 11, 2013
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Christoph Eschenbach, music director
“A TRIBUTE TO SLAVA”
Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No. 6
*****
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Major funding for SPRING FOR MUSIC 2012 is provided by MetLife Foundation.
