2009-2010
Concert Season
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Csaba Onczay,
Cellist |
Conductor and Music Director Thomas Shoebotham will lead the Palo Alto Philharmonic in an
exciting new season beginning October 24, 2009. The first concert will celebrate the Hungarian Cultural Year
featuring Hungarian cellist, Csaba Onczay playing Ernst von Dohnányi's
Konzertstück for cello and orchestra.
Béla Bartók's Hungarian Sketches, Zoltán Kodály's Hary Janos Suite,
and Beethoven's
Overture to King Stephen are also on this program.
The December 5, 2009, concert will begin with the Carmen Suite No.1 by Bizet, to be
followed by Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 (Romantic). The second half will start with
Fanfare from La Péri by Paul Dukas and conclude with Johannes Brahms' Double Concerto
with Claudia Bloom, violin, and Thomas Shoebotham, cello.
The season's third concert, February 20, 2010, features piano soloist Daniel Glover
performing both the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C# minor by
Rimsky-Korsakov and Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra in Db Major
by Prokofiev. This concert opens with Siegfried's Rhine Journey
by Richard Wagner and concludes witih Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar.
For the fourth concert of the season the Philharmonic performs a work commissioned
by the orchestra from composer-in-residence Lee Actor.
This world premiere will be conducted by the composer and
will be presented at two venues on April 10 and April 11, 2010.
Also on this program, Maestro Shoebotham will lead the orchestra
in Dvorák's Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 11 with violinst Heidi Kim and
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica).
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Upcoming Concerts
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Orchestra
Concert I
8 PM, Saturday, October 24, 2009
Cubberley Theatre
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
Chamber
Concert
8 PM, Saturday, November 14, 2009
Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium
1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto
Orchestra
Concert II
8 PM, Saturday, December 5, 2009
Cubberley Theatre
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
Orchestra
Concert III
8 PM, Saturday, February 20, 2010
Cubberley Theatre
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
Chamber
Concert
8 PM, Saturday, March 13, 2010
Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium
1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto
Orchestra
Concert IVA
8 PM, Saturday, April 10, 2010
Cubberley Theatre
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
Orchestra
Concert IVB
3 PM, Sunday, April 11, 2010
McAfee Theatre
20300 Herriman Avenue, Saratoga
Family
Concert
3 PM, Sunday, May 16, 2010
Cubberley Theatre
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
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