2014–2015
Season At A Glance FIRST TENNESSEE MASTERWORKS OPENING WEEKEND:
TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIRST PIANO CONCERTO
Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. Cannon Center for the Performing Arts Mei-Ann Chen, conductor | Jon Kimura Parker, piano
SYMPHONIC FIREWORKS:
RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES!
Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. Cannon Center for the Performing Arts Mei-Ann Chen, conductor Sphinx awards winner Adé Williams, violin
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Danse nègre TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 DVORAK Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
Sponsored by Roadshow BMW and Mei-Ann’s Circle of Friends
Jon Kimura Parker
R STRAUSS Don Juan RAVEL Tzigane J STRAUSS Thunder and Lightning Polka TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italian WAGNER Ride of the Valkyries Adé Williams
MOZART, GERSHWIN & RACHMANINOFF
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 GERSHWIN “I Got Rhythm” Variations RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2
Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Cannon Center for the Performing Arts Mei-Ann Chen, conductor | Orion Weiss, piano Orion Weiss
STORM LARGE SINGS KURT WEILL
Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Cannon Center for the Performing Arts Robert Moody, conductor | Storm Large, vocalist
BEETHOVEN’S NINTH
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 WEILL The Seven Deadly Sins
Sponsored by Baker Donelson
Storm Large
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Cannon Center for the Performing Arts Mei-Ann Chen, conductor | Adé Williams, violin John-Henry Crawford, cello | Victor Asuncion, piano Mary Wilson, soprano | Angela Horn-Barrett, mezzo soprano Robert Breault, tenor | Thomas Barrett, baritone Memphis Symphony Chorus | Rhodes MasterSingers
Mei-Ann Chen
Guest artist, time, date, location and program subject to change without notice.