CentennialSeason 2012-2013
MIGUEL
HARTH-B EDOYA ,
MUSIC
DIRECTOR
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Miguel Harth-Bedoya MUSIC DIRECTOR
We invite you to share in the joyous cele A CENTURY OF MUSIC MAKING
MARCH 1912
It may not have been the most auspicious beginning, that first appearance of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in spring of 1912. The Star-Telegram reported on the occasion, and things were a bit rough by today’s standards: the conductor was also the flute player, and trombones outnumbered violas by three to one.
WELCOME TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON OF THE FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA! I have always said that the experience of hearing music live, in the concert hall, is like no other. It cannot be replaced by any other form of listening. It is a communal experience, a visceral one, happening at only one moment in time. At that moment it becomes a very human experience that is not simply about technique and aesthetics, but is actually bigger than any one of those important parts. It is food for the soul. As a body needs nutrition to sustain it, so does the soul need music. For more than a decade, I have had the privilege of being at the helm of this team of talented and inspired musicians. I am honored to lead the Orchestra into this important and momentous season, which also happens only at one moment in time. We are excited to share this moment, and our music, with you. Because the FWSO belongs to us all. It is OUR orchestra. So let’s celebrate our 100th season in style, together. After all, Life Is Better With Music.
bration of this, our Centennial Season. MARCH 2012
But in fits and starts over the years, that ensemble evolved into today’s world-class Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, performing the finest symphonic music in one of the greatest concert halls anywhere—Bass Performance Hall.
THE GREATEST MUSIC BY THE GREATEST COMPOSERS Each program includes composers selected by Miguel Harth-Bedoya as the most important in the history of symphonic music—Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Stravinsky, Elgar, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Bartók, Rachmaninoff and more. No composer is repeated, giving audiences perhaps the richest, most thrilling season of music the Fort Worth Symphony has ever offered.
COMPOSERS IN RESIDENCE Our Centennial Season is the ideal time to celebrate one of the unique things about your FWSO: the composers-in-residence program begun in 2006. Each will return with a brilliant composition in this anniversary year. We’re proud of our commitment to new music and to these rewarding collaborations with artists of our time. Behzad Ranjbaran
Kevin Puts
COMPOSERS IN RESIDENCE Jennifer Higdon
Season Highlights Gabriela Lena Frank
Peter Boyer
John B Hedges
NEW! ON FRIDAY NIGHTS
We’ve tweaked our Friday night Symphonic Series format, beginning with the 2012–2013 season. Friday concerts will now include the full program of music as well as an intermission. The start time remains 7:30 PM.
MEET THE ARTISTS: SYMPHONIC INSIGHTS Enhance your experience with Symphonic Insights, lively discussion events held one hour before each Symphonic Series concert. Learn more about the day’s music through talks with featured artists such as Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya and our guest composers. Please join us! 4
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Symphonic Series Karen Gomyo
Brinton Averil Smith
Alban Gerhardt
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Alban Gerhardt
Horacio Gutierrez
S EPT E M BE R 14 –16, 2012 M AHLER ’S F I F T H Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor JENNIFER HIGDON MAHLER
blue cathedral Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor
The Centennial Season opens in grand style with Mahler’s monumental Fifth Symphony. This tour de force masses huge orchestral resources for a work that’s by turns turbulent and sublime. Higdon’s acclaimed blue cathedral is a colorful tone poem filled with celestial sounds.
O C TO BE R 5 –7, 2012 PI C TUR E S AT AN EX H I B ITI O N Carl St. Clair, Conductor Horacio Gutierrez, Piano
PETER BOYER PROKOFIEV MUSSORGSKY arr. RAVEL
Festivities Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major Pictures at an Exhibition
Gramophone magazine called his Prokofiev recording “some of the most thrilling virtuosity on record.” The brilliant Horacio Gutierrez joins us to play Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. Then comes Mussorgsky’s ever-popular Pictures at an Exhibition, with Ravel’s colorful orchestration giving life to the sights and sounds of Kiev.
O C TO BE R 26 –28, 2012 B EETH OVEN V I O L I N C O N C ERTO Larry Rachleff, Conductor Karen Gomyo, Violin
DVOŘÁK BEETHOVEN BARTÓK
Carnival Overture Violin Concerto in D Major Concerto for Orchestra
The luminous Karen Gomyo makes her Fort Worth Symphony debut in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, the composer’s best-loved work, is a virtuoso showcase for every section of the orchestra.
N OV E M BE R 16 –18, 2012 SCHEHER AZ AD E Josep Caballé-Domenech, Conductor Alban Gerhardt, Cello JOHN B HEDGES SCHUMANN RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Slapdance Cello Concerto in A Minor Scheherazade
Alban Gerhardt, who last appeared with the FWSO at Carnegie Hall in 2008, brings to life Schumann’s lyrical work for cello and orchestra. Then we’ll enter the exotic, perfumed world of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, based on the tales in The Thousand and One Nights.
JA N UA RY 11 –13, 2013 WAG NER & ST R AU SS Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Brinton Averil Smith, Cello BEHZAD RANJBARAN R. STRAUSS WAGNER WAGNER WAGNER
Mithra Don Quixote Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude to Lohengrin Overture to Rienzi
The former principal cellist of the FWSO returns for Don Quixote, which depicts episodes from the life of Cervantes’ knight-errant. Then, we celebrate Wagner’s 200th birthday with three overtures that offer a close look at this great opera composer’s powerful creations for orchestra. SUB SC RI BE ( 817 ) 665-6000 F WSY M PH ON Y. O RG
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Stefan Jackiw
Jennifer Corning Lucio
Nobuyuki Tsujii 8
Daniil Trifonov
F E BRUA RY 1 –3 , 2013 N O B U PL AYS TC HAI KOV SK Y Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Nobuyuki Tsujii, Piano BRAHMS TCHAIKOVSKY SCHUBERT
Variations on a Theme by J. Haydn Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor Symphony No. 9 in C Major, “The Great”
Nobuyuki Tsujii’s gold-medal win at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition inspired what Time magazine called “Nobu fever” on an international scale. Now he returns to Fort Worth to play one of the most beloved piano concertos of all time. We’ll close with another powerhouse, Schubert’s “Great,” inspired by the lovely Austrian landscape.
F E BRUA RY 22 –24, 2013 MOZ ART & EN I G M A VAR IATI O N S Stefan Asbury, Conductor Jennifer Corning Lucio, Oboe STRAVINSKY MOZART ELGAR
Symphony in Three Movements Oboe Concerto in C Major Variations on an Original Theme, “Enigma Variations”
The sweet, haunting sound of the oboe gets the spotlight as our principal oboist plays Mozart. “Enigma Variations,” Elgar’s masterpiece, paints vivid musical portraits of the composer’s closest friends, with an intriguing mystery at the heart of it all.
M A RCH 15 –17, 2013 S I B ELIU S’ M A JE STI C SE C O N D Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Stefan Jackiw, Violin
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Three Latin-American Dances BRUCH Scottish Fantasy SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D Major “You wonder whether this was what it was like to hear a Perlman or a Stern in their early years,” writes The Washington Post of young violinist Stefan Jackiw, who will perform Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy. The majesty of Sibelius’ most popular symphony provides a big finish.
A PRI L 5 –7, 2 013 R AC H 3 Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Daniil Trifonov, Piano KEVIN PUTS RACHMANINOFF SHOSTAKOVICH
Network Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor Symphony No. 5 in D Minor
Daniil Trifonov is the most recent winner of Moscow’s Tchaikovsky competition, the contest that launched Van Cliburn into stardom. He’ll take on the devilishly difficult Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3. In the face of Stalin’s brutal artistic censorship, Shostakovich filled his Fifth Symphony with lyricism and Russian nationalism, but was he being subversive? You’ll enjoy the sweeping melodies either way.
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M AY 17 –19, 2 013 C AR M I NA B UR ANA Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Cyndia Sieden, Soprano
Michael Maniaci, Countertenor Philip Cutlip, Baritone
JIMMY LÓPEZ Perú Negro (World Premiere*) * Dedicated to Miguel Harth-Bedoya and to the Centennial Season of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
ORFF Carmina Burana
The centennial season closes with a piece whose popularity extends well beyond the symphony stage. Everyone knows the theme “O Fortuna,” used in countless movie trailers and TV commercials, but the entire work is a delight, with its intense rhythmic excitement, its unusual instrumentation, and earthy themes about love and life—there’s even a drinking song! This will be a joyous occasion providing powerful, visceral entertainment on a grand scale.
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American Festival
PART 2
Gershwin, Bernstein & Copland Are Back. Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Building on the triumph of last season’s celebration of Gershwin, Bernstein and Copland, we take a broader and deeper look at great American compositions for orchestra, many of them with stirring American themes. Gershwin, Bernstein and Copland are back, this time joined by fellow greats Samuel Barber, Duke Ellington and Charles Ives, as well as contemporary masters John Williams, Philip Glass, George Walker and more.
F RI DAY, AU G U ST 24 , 2 012 LEON Mc C AW L EY, PIAN O COPLAND BARBER
Selections from Appalachian Spring* Overture to The School for Scandal
GEORGE WALKER JOHN WILLIAMS BERNSTEIN
Lyric for Strings Harry’s Wondrous World from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Symphony No. 2 (“The Age of Anxiety”) for Piano and Orchestra
Andrés Franco, Conductor
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home Andrés Franco, Conductor
Violin Concerto Symphony No. 3: Movement III* On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite Harlem
SUN DAY, AU G U ST 26 , 2 012 JOSÉ FEG H AL I, PIAN O IVES arr. SCHUMAN Variations on America Andrés Franco, Conductor STILL Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American” GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F Major COPLAND Three Dance Episodes from Rodeo* Buckaroo Holiday Corral Nocturne Hoe Down *Featuring a multimedia presentation by Alton Adkins
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Pops Series Cirque Musica
The 1950s
Jack Everly, Conductor
HOME FOR THE
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HOLIDAYS
S EPT E M BE R 7 –9, 2012 T H E 1950 S : THE GO LD EN AG E O F B L AC K & W H IT E Jack Everly, Conductor Step back in time to the Fabulous Fifties, as we transport you to a broadcast studio during the Golden Age of Television. Conductor and arranger Jack Everly leads a nostalgic revue of TV theme songs (I Love Lucy), commercials, popular hits (Unchained Melody, Mambo Italiano) and even a nod to Elvis.
O C TO BE R 12 –14, 2012 M U S I C C IT Y H IT-M AKERS Andrés Franco, Conductor The Grammy-winning creators of today’s biggest country hits take the spotlight in an exciting songwriter’s showcase. Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson, hit-makers for Nashville’s megastars, perform a parade of No. 1 songs, including Jesus, Take the Wheel (recorded by Carrie Underwood), Out Last Night (Kenny Chesney), It’s America (Rodney Atkins), Blessed (Martina McBride) and many more.
N OV E M BE R 2 –4, 2012 C I R Q UE M U S I C A Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Cirque Musica blends the thrilling talents of the best circus performers with exhilarating symphonic music, including John Williams, the Beatles, and excerpts from Holst’s The Planets and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Soaring aerialists, acrobats and strongmen — veterans of Cirque du Soleil and Ringling Bros. — will dazzle with elegance, grace and power.
N OV E M BE R 24 –25, 2012 H OM E FO R T HE H O L I DAYS Ron Spigelman, Conductor Southwestern Seminary Master Chorale Our annual holiday pops, with favorite Christmas carols, the Dorothy Shaw Bell Choir, a family sing-along, a cameo by Santa, and snow in Bass Hall! The four performances are 2 and 8 PM Saturday and 2 and 7 PM Sunday. (Note: There is no Friday performance, due to Fort Worth’s Parade of Lights. Friday Pops subscribers will receive Sunday night tickets.)
Music City Hit-Makers
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Natalie Merchant
Springtime in Paris
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Oz with Orchestra
JA N UA RY 25 –27, 2013 OZ WITH O RC HE ST R A Ron Spigelman, Conductor A magical multimedia production featuring one of the most beloved films of all time, The Wizard of Oz. Experience the brilliantly restored film on the big screen, with Judy Garland’s original 1939 studio recordings backed by lush, live orchestration. It’s a treat for all ages.
M A RCH 22 –24, 2013 SPR I N GTI M E I N PAR I S Sarah Hicks, Conductor Bass Performance Hall is transformed into the City of Lights in this concert celebrating our love affair with Paris. Innovative young pops conductor Sarah Hicks presents a salute to French music and performers, including singers Edith Piaf and Josephine Baker, composers Django Reinhardt and Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), singer-songwriters Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg, and more!
A PRI L 12 –14, 2 013 NATALI E M ERCHAN T with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Andrés Franco, Conductor Known for her warm and distinctive vocals in solo hits and as the lead singer for pop group 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant makes her Fort Worth Symphony debut in a concert of old favorites and newer songs from her highly acclaimed symphonic album, Leave Your Sleep.
Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya has transformed (the Fort Worth Symphony) into a major-league orchestra.
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Special Events Orbit: An HD Odyssey
Messiah
Wynonna Judd
New Year’s Eve: A Night in Vienna
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This is a great orchestra. I hope the citizens of Fort Worth realize what a treasure they have in the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. — COMPOSER/CONDUCTOR JOHN WILLIAMS S EPT E M BE R 22, 2012, 8 PM O R B IT: AN HD O DYSSEY with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Duncan Copp, Producer/Director Don’t miss this second film in the HD Odyssey series, a sequel to last season’s popular The Planets: An HD Odyssey. Orbit points the lens at our own lovely planet, with breathtaking high-definition photos of Earth taken from space, accompanied by Richard Strauss’ stirring Also Sprach Zarathustra and John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine.
D EC EM BE R 3 , 2012, 7:30 PM M E SS IAH David Thye, Conductor Southwestern Seminary Master Chorale Rejoice greatly at the return of this Fort Worth holiday tradition, the area’s finest Messiah collaboration. Thrill to exultant choruses, soaring trumpets and pounding timpani as the Southwestern Seminary Master Chorale and guest soloists join the orchestra for Handel’s epic masterpiece.
D EC EM BE R 18, 2012, 8 PM WYN O NNA JU D D with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Andrés Franco, Conductor Country music superstar Wynonna Judd returns to Fort Worth to perform with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at the Bass Performance Hall. For one night only, Judd’s powerful voice will ignite the Hall with the sounds of the season.
D EC EM BE R 31, 2012, 8 PM NE W YE AR ’S EVE: A N I G HT I N VI EN NA John Giordano, Conductor Ava Pine, Soprano It’s an elegant celebration of New Year’s Eve and of the Fort Worth Symphony’s history as we welcome back John Giordano, the FWSO’s music director from 1972 to 2000. He’ll lead a night of Strauss waltzes and other Viennese classics as well as favorite soprano arias featuring the incandescent Ava Pine, a Fort Worth audience favorite.
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Bernadette Peters
The Splendor of the Strads
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The strings in particular have been honed, during the decade of Harth-Bedoya’s presence at the helm of the orchestra, into a precise ensemble with a distinctively smooth tone quality. — WAYNE LEE GAY, D MAGAZINE
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JA N UA RY 5 , 2 013, 8 PM B ER NAD ET TE PET ERS with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Marvin Laird, Conductor One of Broadway’s brightest stars, Bernadette Peters returns to the Fort Worth Symphony stage for one night only to dazzle audiences with songs from her incredible career on stage and screen.
F E BRUA RY 9, 2 013, 7 PM T H E S PL E NDO R O F THE STR AD S: A GAL A EV EN T Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Michael Shih, Violin Swang Lin, Violin In our 100th anniversary season, the Fort Worth Symphony honors our own artists and the generosity of our community in a glittering night highlighting the two priceless Stradivari violins on loan to the orchestra from local donors. The program is a violin showcase, with Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and other masterpieces written for this glorious instrument. We’ll end the celebration with Beethoven’s immortal Symphony No. 5.
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SYMPHONIC SERIES Fri., at 7:30 PM, Sat. at 8 PM and Sun. at 2 PM Prices on page 12. DAY AREA NO. OF SEATS PRICE PER SEAT
1st Choice
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2nd Choice 3rd Choice Box Tier and Orchestra seats do not carry an automatic “Right of Renewal” from season to season. American Festival August 24-26, 2012, Fri., Sat. and Sun. at 7:30 PM Prices on page 11. AREA NO. OF SEATS PRICE PER SEAT 1st Choice
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POPS SERIES Fri., Sat. at 8 PM and Sun. at 2 PM Prices on page 13. DAY AREA NO. OF SEATS PRICE PER SEAT
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2nd Choice 3rd Choice Box Tier and Orchestra seats do not carry an automatic “Right of Renewal” from season to season. SPECIAL CONCERTS
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ORBIT: AN HD ODYSSEY Sat., September 22, 2012 at 8 PM Prices on page 21. 1st Choice
x $
= $
x $
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MESSIAH Mon., December 3, 2012 at 7:30 PM Prices on page 21. 1st Choice 2nd Choice WYNONNA JUDD Tue., December 18, 2012 at 8 PM Prices on page 21. 1st Choice
x $
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2nd Choice NEW YEAR’S EVE: A NIGHT IN VIENNA Mon., December 31, 2012 at 8 PM Prices on page 21. 1st Choice
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BERNADETTE PETERS Fri., January 5, 2013 at 8 PM Prices on page 21. 1st Choice
x $
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2nd Choice THE SPLENDOR OF THE STRADS: A GALA EVENT Fri., February 9, 2013 at 7 PM Prices on page 21. 1st Choice
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