Boston Classical Orchestra

Dates: 9/26/2009 to 4/11/2010

Description: Boston Classical Orchestra

dates: Sept. 26, 2009 8PM ; Sept. 27th, 2009 3PM; Oct. 24, 2009 8PM; Oct. 25, 2009 3PM; Nov 22, 2009 3PM; Feb 14, 2010 3PM; Mar. 13, 2010 8PM; Mar. 14, 2010 3PM; Apr. 10, 2010 8PM; Apr. 11, 2010 3PM

description: All concerts in historic Faneuil Hall at Quincy Market in downtown Boston – corner of Congress and State Streets
MBTA subway stops: Government Center and State

Sept. 26, 2009, 8 pm and Sept. 27, 2009, 3 pm
Beethoven 7, Parnas plays Schumann
Music Director Steven Lipsitt opens the BCO’s 30th anniversary season by honoring the birthdays of two titans of classical music - Mendelssohn and Schumann. He will conduct Mendelssohn’s seldom-heard overture, “The Fair Melusine,” Schumann’s ‘Cello Concerto with Leslie Parnas (Casals’s “favorite” cellist) and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.

Leslie Parnas: “An artist of marvelous impulsiveness who commands perhaps the most gorgeous tone since Feuermann.”
--New York Times

Oct. 24, 2009, 8 pm and Oct. 25, 2009, 3 pm
Mendelssohn Italian, Frautschi plays Schumann
Emerging superstar violinist Jennifer Frauschi, winner of a coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, plays Schumann’s Violin Concerto, followed by the joyful “Italian” Symphony of Mendelssohn. Cambridge composer Howard Frazin returns with a new overture to celebrate the BCO’s 30th Anniversary Season. Music Director Steven Lipsitt conducts.
Jennifer Frautschi: “The fabulous Frautachi is one of our most fully gifted musical artists.” ---Boston Herald

Nov. 22, 2009, 3 pm
Dreams Celestial & Terrestrial
Music Director Steven Lipsitt conducts Mendelssohn: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Overture; the world premiere of Andrew List’s “Earth Song for ‘Cello & Orchestra” with the virtuosic cellist Emmanuel Feldman as soloist and Mozart’s great Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”. Tickets $18-$63 from website, or call 617-423-3883.

“Emmanuel Feldman’s tone is beautiful, enormous – he carries a long line with great flexibility, never sacrificing its direction.” ---Boston Globe

Feb. 14, 2010, 3 pm
A Borromeo Valentine
The Borromeo String Quartet (hailed by the Boston Globe as being “the finest string quartet on this planet”), the BCO String Quartet, Chia-Jung Tsay (piano), and Steven Lipsitt (clarinet) play Mozart: Clarinet Quintet and Mendelssohn: String Octet. Tickets $18-63 from website or call 617-423-3883.

“The Borromeo String Quartet is simply the best there is on this planet.”
--Boston Globe

Mar. 13, 2010, 8 pm and Mar. 14, 2010, 3 pm
Beethoven 4, Mazurkevich plays Tchaikovsky
Boston Classical’s 30th anniversary season continues with Music Director Steven Lipsitt conducting Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” Overture, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Yuri Mazurkevich (protégé of the legendary David Oistrakh), and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4.

Yuri Mazurkevich: “Virtuoso brilliance, profound musicianship and beautiful sound.” ---David Oistrakh

Apr. 10, 2010, 8 pm and Apr. 11, 2010, 3 pm
Schumann 2, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Herschel Garfein’s Music from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” (based on the play by Tom Stoppard) and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 conclude the BCO’s 30th anniversary season. Music Director Steven Lipsitt conducts.

“’Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ is very savvy and suave and sad. Delightful, dolorous tunes. Actual arias. Garfein’s gift” ---Mark Morris,
Choreographer/Director

Tickets: Sect. A: $63 (reserved, center front, floor & balcony); Sect. B: $48 (reserved, center rear, floor); Sect. C: $38 (unreserved, balcony side); Sect. D: $34 (unreserved, floor side); $3 senior/teacher discount all sections. Students: $18 balcony side.

Tickets: $18-$63. By phone: 617-423-3883. Secure website: www.BostonClassicalOrchestra.org. By mail: BCO, P O Box 152, Newton MA 02468

Location: Faneuil Hall

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