Chamber Orchestra Features Classics, Folk Music and Spanish Heroes in 08-09

The Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra led by music director Mischa Santora has
announced partial programming for its 2008-09, 35^th anniversary season.
    As in recent years, there will be three mini-festivals spread throughout the season.  There will be two concerts each in the fall and spring at Memorial Hall downtown and Anderson Center in Anderson Township, three concerts in June, 2009 at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Anderson Center.

   The Anderson Center concerts are all Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m.   Concerts at Memorial Hall and CCM are Sunday matinees beginning at 2 p.m., except June 20, which is at 7:30 p.m.
   Heading the guest artist list is pianist Awadagin Pratt, artist-in-residence at CCM, who will open the season Sept. 21 at Memorial Hall and Anderson Center with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
   Performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto Oct. 19 at Memorial Hall will be CCO principal clarinetist John Kurokawa.  Clarinetist David Stern, a former member of the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, now dean of U.C. College of Medicine, will join the CCO in a repeat of the Mozart Concerto Nov. 16 at Anderson Center.
   In what has become an annual collaboration, the CCO will perform with the Vocal Arts Ensemble led by conductor Earl Rivers in a folk music festival in March at Anderson Center featuring “Three Kentucky Psalms” by Alice Parker.  Soprano Sarah Wolfson will join the CCO in Copland’s “Old American Songs” at Memorial Hall in April.
   The June mini-festival, “Spanish Heroes,” will focus on music for or about the Iberian peninsula.  Spanish composer Manuel de Falla’s “Master Peter’s Puppet Show” with giant puppets from Madcap Puppet Theater will be heard June 7 in CCM’s Corbett Auditorium and Anderson Center, along with the suite from Falla’s opera “El Amor Brujo.”  The season will close with a staged performance of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” June 20 and 21 in CCM’s Patricia Corbett Theater.

 The 2008-09 Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra season (partial).

"Classical Relationships"

•  Sept. 21. Memorial Hall.  Anderson Center. Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1. Haydn, Symphony No. 104. Awadagin Pratt, piano.

• Oct. 19. Memorial Hall.  Anderson Center. Mozart, Symphony No. 31, Clarinet Concerto. Haydn, Symphony No. 85 (“La Reine”). John Kurokawa, clarinet.

• Nov. 16. Anderson Center. Same as Oct. 19 with David Stern, clarinet.

• March 22. Memorial Hall.  Anderson Center.  Alice Parker, “Three KentuckyPsalms.” Vocal Arts Ensemble. Earl Rivers, conductor.

• April 19. Memorial Hall. Weiner, Serenade. Berio, Folksongs. Copland, “Old American Songs.” Dvorak, Wind Serenade. Kodaly, Hungarian Rondo. Sarah Wolfson, soprano.

• June 7. Corbett Auditorium.  Anderson Center. Telemann, “Don Quichotte.” Falla, “Master Peter’s Puppet Show.” Falla, “El Amor Brujo” Suite. Rossini, Overture to “The Barber of Seville.” Madcap Puppet Theater puppets.

• June 20, 21. Patricia Corbett Theater. Mozart, “Don Giovanni.”

Concerts in Anderson Center and June 20 in Patricia Corbett Theater at CCM begin at 7:30 p.m.  Starting time for concerts in Memorial Hall, CCM's Corbett Auditorium and June 21 at PCT is 2 p.m.