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Dear ALAN,
Be part of
the action and join us in downtown this weekend. You'll be rewarded
with great music.
This week
Symphony Silicon Valley finds itself split between two great programs.
Verdi's magnificent Requiem graces the stage of the California Theatre
(this concert is presented without an intermission), and a quartet of
works will be presented in the Center for the Performing Arts as we
accompany Ballet San Jose in its mixed bill of fare.
We had to
hire 70 string players alone this week. Thankfully the Bay Area has an
ample supply of talented musicians for these calendar anomalies.
Remember
the old curse 'be careful of what you wish for.' San Jose is going to
busy in other ways too as the NCAA Basketball Tournament is taking
place so plan your theatre travel time accordingly. Saturday night will
be the most difficult from a traffic point of view.
Come on in,
the music is fine.
Andrew Bales,
President
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Verdi's Musical Masterpiece Comes to the California
To celebrate Verdi's 200th anniversary,
the Symphony Silicon Valley presents this powerful and dramatically
moving musical work in the resonant and resplendent California Theatre.
The symphony joins forces with Maestra
Elena Sharkova and the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale and
four vocal soloists to present this choral masterpiece.
The Requiem begins
with the solemn Kyrie
and quickly flows to the terrifying and crushing hammer blows of the Dies irae, the
musical heart of the piece. The themes move from the awe and majesty of
Judgment Day to the tenderness of a prayer for peace. The Chorale sings
with hushed reverence in the Requiem
aeternam, roar in the Dies
irae, and dance lightly through the joyful Sanctus.
This Requiem was
composed for the concert hall, not the cathedral, and Verdi brought his
considerable skill as an opera composer to the Latin mass. The powerful
results are evident in the dynamic rhythms, transcendent melodies, and
vivid contrasts he employs to express the powerful emotions created by
the text.
This Requiem had
a strange birth as Giuseppe Verdi began this Requiem to honor Rosinni, but
instead, completed it to honor his dear friend, the great writer and
intellectual Alessandro
Manzoni (1785-1873), best known today as the author of
the sprawling historical novel The
Betrothed. The first performance of the Requiem on May 22,
1874 marked the first anniversary of Manzoni's death.
Our presentation
of this seminal work features the talents of four great soloists who
are not strangers to the California Theatre stage. Christina Major
(Soprano), Layna
Chianakas (Mezzo-Soprano), Christopher Bengochea
(Tenor), and Jordan
Shanahan (Baritone), are each exciting and dynamic
vocalists with countless awards and accolades between them.
Our maestro for
the evening is Peter
Jaffe, making his Symphony Silicon Valley regular
season debut. But Maestro Jaffe is no stranger to Symphony Silicon
Valley as he is our stellar ArtSPARK conductor having brought symphonic
music to over 30,000 students, and better known to audiences for his
exciting work at Target Summer Pops each summer. We are thrilled for
this exciting debut, conducting this moving work by the great Italian
master of vocal magic.
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Verdi:
Requiem, Dies irae
Claudio
Vandelli, conductor
New
Russia State Symphony Orchestra
Live
in Moscow
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Giuseppi
Verdi:
Requiem
March 23 & 24, 2013
California Theatre, San Jose, CA
Tickets Tickets $39-79
408-286-2600
Conductor: Peter Jaffe
Soloists:
Christina Major (Soprano),
Layna Chianakas (Mezzo-Soprano), Christopher Bengochea (Tenor), and
Jordan Shanahan (Baritone)
Symphony Silicon
Valley Chorale,
Elena Sharkova, Director
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An American In Paris
Saturday May 11, 8:00pm
Sunday May 12, 2:30pm
Tickets $39-79
A
sampler of American composers, this evening is filled with delightful
music from Gershwin, Bernstein, Korngold and Adams and features
Tchaikovsky Competition-winner Andres Cardenes.
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A Hero's Tale
Saturday June 1, 8:00pm
Sunday June 2, 2:30pm
Tickets $39-79
Master classical guitarist Jason Vieaux
plays Rodrigo's dream-filled Concierto de Aranjuez, followed by
Richard Strauss' large-orchestra showpiece Ein Heldenleben
or A Hero's Life.
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The Best of the English
Romantics
Friday June 7, 8:00pm
Tickets $25
The Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale presents a variety
program at the Palo Alto United Methodist Church. Music by Ralph
Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Edgar Elgar, and Will Todd.
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SYMPHONY PLAYS FOR
THE BALLET
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March 22-24
Our orchestra is also appearing with Ballet San Jose. This mixed
repertory program features Sir Frederick Ashton's Les Rendezvous,
danced to music from the opera L'Enfant prodigue by Auber.
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Also on this program will be the exotic Méditation from
Thaïs set to Jules Massenet's "Méditation." Rounding out
the program are encore performances of Clear from choreographer
Stanton Welch with music by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Clark Tippet's
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1,
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set to the famous violin concerto by Max Bruch.
Violinist Rachel Lee and principal oboe Pamela Hakl will each have
major solos in this program.
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ABOUT SYMPHONY
SILICON VALLEY
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Symphony Silicon Valley is the professional symphony
orchestra of San Jose. Founded in 2002, the nonprofit company has
progressed from a daring idea to rapidly become the greater South Bay's
premiere orchestra and a notable community success story. The Symphony's
artists, nationally recruited, locally resident, with an average
performance tenure in San Jose of over 20 years, are recognized as
among the best in the greater Bay Area. Led by an exciting roster
of distinguished guest conductors on the European model, the Symphony
is an anchor tenant of San Jose's magnificently restored downtown
California Theatre, one of Northern California's most outstanding music
halls. Symphony Silicon Valley is setting an example of an
innovative business model in the arts -- market driven and financially
conservative, with low overhead and the flexibility to match its
programming to its support base. Besides the Orchestra's core
Classics programming, the Symphony's other concerts include Target
Summer Pops free music festival, five diverse concerts produced
outdoors on the lawn and annually bringing nearly 17,000 people out to
enjoy totally free and family-friendly music; and ArtSPARK, the
County's new arts education program for all elementary students in
grades 3-6. This school year the program will serve 33,000 students.
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