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Dear ALAN RUSSELL,   Welcome to Symphony Silicon Valley's exciting new season, opening on September 28 and 29 with our first classical program of the year. In fact, the 2013-14 season is already well underway. Our popular Target Summer Pops concluded just a few weeks ago, after treating over 22,000 fans to five free concerts on the Tower Lawn at San Jose State University.  Then came the orchestra's first-time collaboration with Mexican Heritage Festival's VivaFest at the SAP Arena.   Gearing up for another exciting series of outreach programs to county elementary students, ArtSPARK is breaking speed records with nearly 200 applications for 3rd and 4th grade field trips submitted in just the first four weeks, and more coming in every day.    Now the orchestra comes home to the glorious California Theatre for two concerts featuring Berlioz's fierce and intoxicating Symphonie Fantastique. I look forward to introducing Austrian conductor Christoph Campestrini to you. He joins us for the first time to lead a program full of charm, passion and power.    I'll see you in the Theatre.   Andrew Bales, President   Website Buy Tickets Upcoming Concerts Directions & Parking     2013 - 2014 SEASON OPENER   Symphony Silicon Valley Opens with Berlioz's Masterpiece!       Storytelling in music was revolutionized by Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, with its massive orchestra and vivid, even hallucinatory, colors. Wildly popular from its first performance, it makes the perfect beginning to our season.    This monumental work of the Romantic period tells the story of "an artist gifted with a lively imagination" who has "poisoned himself with opium" in the "depths of despair" because of "hopeless love." These quotes are taken from Berlioz's own program notes, which he wrote for each movement of the work. He prefaces his notes with the following instructions: "The composer's intention has been to develop various episodes in the life of an artist, in so far as they lend themselves to musical treatment. As the work cannot rely on the assistance of speech, the plan of the instrumental drama needs to be set out in advance. The following programme must therefore be considered as the spoken text of an opera, which serves to introduce musical movements and to motivate their character and expression."   This exciting concert features Austrian Maestro Campestrini in his first appearance on our podium, and opens with the exuberant overture to Glinka's fairytale opera of heroism and true love, Ruslan and Ludmilla, studded with Russian, Finnish and Persian folk tunes. Prokofiev's charming and impudent musical fable Lieutenant Kije, is a suite arranged from his score for a 1934 Soviet comedy, based in turn on a poem by Pushkin. It tells the satirical story of an imaginary soldier, the product of a misprint in a military list, who is promoted through the ranks until he must be killed off by his comrades to avoid a command appearance before the Tsar. "Too bad, he was such a good soldier."     Join us for an evening of superbly expressive music that moves from the fanciful to the dramatic, finally building to the demonic -- all in the reassuring comfort of the concert hall.   Christoph Campestrini, conductor   Symphonie Fantastique      September 28 & 29, 2013 California Theatre, San Jose, CA   Tickets Tickets $41-83 (408) 286-2600       IT'S NOT TOO LATE!   New season subscriptions still available! SEASON TICKET INFORMATION: Season tickets on-sale today Buy early for best seating Current subscribers receive priority seating Last day to subscribe is Friday, September 27th! Didn't receive a renewal packet?  No worries, just call us! (408) 286-2600.    Box office hours are Mon-Fri 10AM-5PM     2013-2014 SEASON Subscribe Today!     Season Tickets $148-$553 408-286-2600  Series of 4 or 7 Concerts Subscriber Benefits Guaranteed Seats  UPCOMING CONCERTS David Herbert   And the Beat Goes On... Saturday Oct 26, 8:00pm Sunday Oct 27, 2:30pm Tickets $41-83       Played on 15 custom-built timpani tuned for melody, William Kraft's Timpani Concerto No. 2 is almost as much dance as it is music. Shostakovich's autobiographical Tenth Symphony, with its merciless portrait of Stalin follows.   Mayuko Kamio   Kamio Plays Tchaikovsky Saturday Dec 7, 8:00pm Sunday Dec 8, 2:30pm Tickets $41-83          When our scheduled soloist took ill last season, violinist Mayuko Kamio stepped in as a substitute - and departed a sensation. Listeners were enthralled; reviews were ecstatic. She returns to play Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. Festive Holiday Fun!   Carols in the California   Saturday December 14, 7:00pm Tickets $35        Join the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale singing "Too Hot to Handel", plus sing-a-long carols and our own special rendition of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Family fun and holiday music! ABOUT SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY   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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