Boulder Philharmonic 2021-22 Season

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Dear friends, Your Boulder Phil can’t wait to reconnect with you!

With your help, we kept the music playing during our Reimagined season and took you inside the music with unique camera angles, in-depth interviews and behind-the-scenes video footage. For our 2021-22 Season, we’re excited to welcome you back inside the concert hall to reignite and reawaken your senses with the energy of in-person, live performances of great music that we know you’ll love.

Our six-concert subscription series kicks off at Macky Auditorium in January 2022 with a Gershwin Celebration featuring the renowned Marcus Roberts Trio and their spellbinding, toe-tapping take on his Concerto in F. The season is packed with audience favorites by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky, along with fresh new discoveries from Mason Bates, Anna Clyne, Cindy McTee and a world premiere violin concerto from jazz legend Billy Childs.

We’re thrilled to be joined by a roster of world-class guests like violinist Rachel Barton Pine, pianist Terrence Wilson and Boulder’s own GRAMMY®-winning violist, Richard O’Neill. And we close our season with the return of ukulele sensation, Jake Shimabukuro! “Boulder touches” also abound, including concertmaster Charles Wetherbee playing the evocative Butterfly Lovers' Concerto along with spectacular aerial choreography from

Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance, and the premiere of two fascinating works of video art commissioned by the Phil to deepen and enhance the experience of Circuits and Mysterious Mountain.

As a subscriber, you receive the best seats at the best prices, personalized service, and free ticket exchanges. You can resubscribe with confidence, knowing that the health and safety of our patrons, musicians and staff is our first priority, with all of the necessary COVID-19 safety protocols in place.

We also invite you to join us for musical hikes in 2022, led by interpretive naturalist Dave Sutherland in collaboration with Boulder County Audubon Society.

Thank you for being part of our Boulder Phil family. We look forward to seeing you soon for live music!

SAR A PARKINSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MICH AEL BUTTERMAN MUSIC DIRECTOR

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Renew OPENING WEEKEND: GERSHWIN CELEBRATION

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 7:30 PM Macky Auditorium

SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1:30 PM Lone Tree Arts Center* Michael Butterman, conductor Marcus Roberts Trio Marcus Roberts, piano; Rodney Jordan, bass; Jason Marsalis, drums GERSHWIN GERSHWIN

“Roberts first introduced his version of Concerto in F in a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, and he owns it.” ~THIRD COAST REVIEW

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An American in Paris Piano Concerto in F

In January, the Boulder Phil returns to beautiful Macky Auditorium for a Gershwin celebration featuring the extraordinary Marcus Roberts Trio. We open with Gershwin’s famous travelogue—An American in Paris—full of memorable, energetic tunes. Then you'll hear Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F highlighted by dazzling improvisation. *Tickets for the Lone Tree performance are available at lonetreeartscenter.org/shows.

BEETHOVEN 7 & A WORLD PREMIERE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 7:30 PM Macky Auditorium Michael Butterman, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin BILLY CHILDS BEETHOVEN

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (world premiere/co-commission) Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

Billy Childs is a multi-GRAMMY® award winning jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, and the Boulder Phil will be privileged to present the world premiere of his new violin concerto, written specifically for the renowned soloist Rachel Barton Pine.

Anchoring the evening will be Beethoven’s ever-popular Symphony No. 7, a work dubbed “the apotheosis of the dance” because of its propulsive energy and infectious rhythms.

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“An exciting, boundary-defying performer—Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon.” ~THE WASHINGTON POST

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 7:30 PM Photo: Steve J. Sherman

Michael Butterman, conductor Terrence Wilson, piano CINDY MCTEE HOVHANESS

Circuits Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain” RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3

Superstar pianist Terrence Wilson joins the Phil for what is perhaps the quintessential virtuoso showpiece, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, full of blazing pyrotechnics and heartrendingly beautiful melodies.

To open the program, the Boulder Phil co-commissioned two video artists—Alexi Moriarty and Stephen Lias— to create innovative visual content to complement McTee's Circuits and Hovhaness' Mysterious Mountain.

Photo: J. Henry Fair

RACHMANINOFF 3 & MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN

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THE FIREBIRD & FREQUENT FLYERS SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 7:30 PM Michael Butterman, conductor Charles Wetherbee, violin Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV STRAVINSKY

Undistant The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto Russian Easter Overture Firebird Suite (1919)

Springtime’s promise of rebirth and renewal animates this program.

We welcome back our friends at Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance® for an only-in-Boulder collaboration that also features our Concertmaster Charles Wetherbee as violin soloist in The Butterfly Lovers' Concerto, based on a Chinese legend involving, among other things, the idea of rebirth. Other dimensions of that same theme are explored in two orchestral showpieces: Rimsky-Korsakov’s dramatic Russian Easter Overture, and Stravinsky’s much-loved suite from The Firebird ballet.

Opening the program, we have a new work by Mason Bates titled Undistant that reflects on our recent experience of “cocooning” during the pandemic isolation and the thrill of reconnecting with one another yet again.

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Photo: Jati Lindsay

MASON BATES HE ZHANHAO/CHEN GANG

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Sound and Fury Viola Concerto Enigma Variations

We are thrilled to welcome GRAMMY®-winning soloist and new member of Boulder's renowned Takács String Quartet, violist Richard O’Neill, to the Macky stage for the impressive and dramatic Viola Concerto by Sir William Walton—coincidentally, the piece that earned O'Neill his recent GRAMMY. Along with this, we have a piece by Anna Clyne called Sound and Fury inspired by a Haydn Symphony and the final soliloquy from Macbeth.

We close with the ever-popular Enigma Variations by Sir Edward Elgar.

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“Energetic, sassy…exceptional” ~THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

PART OF A 6-CONCERT SERIES

JAKE SHIMABUKURO WITH THE BOULDER PHIL SATURDAY, MAY 28, 7:30 PM Michael Butterman, conductor Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele Ukulele wizard Jake Shimabukuro has been declared a musical “hero”

by Rolling Stone and has wowed audiences worldwide. As Jake says, “If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.”

Join us for Jake's return to the Boulder Phil as he performs many of his best virtuosic hits, including his own originals for ukulele and orchestra.

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Boulder Phil Education Programs The Boulder Phil's education programs impacted more students in 2020-21 than ever before: almost 5,000 Colorado students enjoyed our Virtual Discovery Program at school and at home with their families. Additionally, for the first time we were able to offer our education programming to students around the world. In total, the Boulder Phil's 2021 Virtual Discovery Program reached 16,288 students in 23 states and four countries!

DISCOVERY PROGRAM

MEET THE MAESTRO

EMERGING COMPOSERS

IN-PERSON CHAMBER MUSIC VISITS

SIDE-BY-SIDES

MUSICAL HIKES

Connects music with school curriculum for 3rd-6th graders

Bring live music into elementary schools

VIRTUAL CLASSROOM POP-INS

Phil musicians visit individual classrooms virtually

Provides in-person musical experiences with Maestro Butterman

Phil musicians mentor high school and youth orchestra students

Boulder Phil musicians perform new works written by area high school students

Bring music and nature together

For more information about our education programs & regional outreach, contact Education Coordinator Introduces preschoolers to music through movement DeAunn Davis at deaunn@boulderphil.org.

EARLY EXPLORERS

Your Impact—Measure by Measure See how your contribution supports the Boulder Phil and your community:

$100 One Early Explorer experience

$2,500 Support music

written by Emerging Composers

$250 Boulder Phil musician $5,000 Commission a for a GBYO Side-by-Side

new work

$10,000 One rehearsal

$1,000 Music rental

$25,000 Discovery Concert

for one concert

for one season

$100,000 Strengthen the Phil’s endowment

$500 A chamber music event in the community

$50,000 Venue rental

for the full orchestra

Your donation to your Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra will make all of this possible:

9 full orchestra concerts 12 chamber music events in the community

15,000 total concert attendees 10,000 students served in the community

We appreciate your support!

For more information, contact Associate Director of Development Rebin Ali at rebin@boulderphil.org.

To make a donation, visit BoulderPhil.org/support.

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2021-22 Season Ticket Pricing MAIN SERIES SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGES—5 or 6 concerts (1/22, 2/12, 3/19, 4/30, 5/14 & 5/28) Get the best seats at the best prices!

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6-Concert Series includes 5/28 Jake Shimabukuro concert

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MAY 28 JAKE SHIMABUKURO CONCERT

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