2022-2023 Season Brochure, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

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ANNIVERSARY SEASON

STEINMETZ HALL

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Named after philanthropists Chuck and Margery Pabst Steinmetz, Steinmetz Hall is one of the world’s most acoustically perfect spaces designed to achieve an N1 sound rating, the lowest level at which humans can detect sound. Steinmetz Hall was designed to have no poor seating sections. Each of our patrons can see and hear the orchestra without any visual or aural obstruction.

INTRODUCING STEINMETZ HALL AND T H E 2022-2023 SEASON OF PURE SOUND 3

Steinmetz Hall

ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

2022

2023 CLASSICS SERIES

ALL CONCERTS ARE PERFORMED AT STEINMETZ HALL

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Welcome to the Orlando Philharmonic’s 30th Anniversary Season and our first full season entirely in the magnificent new Steinmetz Hall, one of the world’s most acoustically perfect spaces!

It is with great pride that we introduce our 2022-2023 Classics Series, which will present star-studded concerts featuring national and international artists Yuja Wang, Jan Vogler, Inon Barnatan, Orli Shaham, Adele Anthony, and critically acclaimed conductor Thomas Wilkins. With Music Director Eric Jacobsen and our fabulous orchestra, these virtuosic forces will sound all the more glorious in our new surroundings. You’ll enjoy compositions

by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn, and Mahler, works by women composers and composers and soloists of color, and notable world premieres.

As always, our inspiring season celebrates the lively diversity of Orlando, which we have strived to reflect with programming and artists who will bring it to vivid life, strengthening and enriching the musical bonds that unite us. ~ Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

THE PL ANETS

October 1-2, 2022 • Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 3:30 p.m.

Eric Jacobsen, conductor Adele Anthony, violin – National Anthem – Beyond Sensorial Portals (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra commission; World Premiere) TCHAIKOVSKY – Violin Concerto HOLST – The Planets COLIN JACOBSEN – Ascending Bird TRADITIONAL JAMES LEE III

Eric Jacobsen and the Orlando Philharmonic take the stage of fabulous Steinmetz Hall for the grand opening of the 2022-2023 Classics Series!

Join us as Adele Anthony (“plays beautifully, with warm, luminous tone…” ~ Gramophone) reveals the graceful melodies and dizzying virtuosity of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. And in Holst’s Planets you’ll hear Mars’s bellicose hammer blows; Venus’s gentle serenity; Mercury’s fleetfootedness; and Neptune’s mysteries with voices singing wordlessly…fading away into the unknown. Plus, works by contemporary composers Colin Jacobsen and James Lee III’s celebratory opener welcoming you to the excitement of hearing music in our new home in our 30th Season.

Adele Anthony

ORLI SHAHAM PL AYS MOZART

October 15-16, 2022 • Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 3:30 p.m.

Eric Jacobsen, conductor Orli Shaham, piano – Three excerpts from L’amant anonyme – Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488 DAVID ROBERTSON – Piano Concerto (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra commission; World Premiere) MENDELSSOHN – Symphony No. 4, “Italian” BOLOGNE, CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES MOZART

It was inevitable that 21-year-old Mendelssohn would fall in love with Italy…its sun-drenched landscapes and the warmth of its people. This love found exuberant expression in his “Italian” Symphony (“blue sky in A Major,” he dubbed it.) Orli Shaham (“a commanding, powerful performance” ~ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) solos in two piano concertos: David Robertson’s in its world premiere and Mozart’s popular 23rd with a ravishing Adagio of haunting depth. Plus, orchestral excerpts from The Anonymous Lover, an opera by 18th century Afro-French composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Orli Shaham

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MAJESTIC BRUCKNER / DVOŘÁK GRANDEUR

November 12-13, 2022 • Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 3:30 p.m.

Eric Jacobsen, conductor Jan Vogler, cello MAYER

– Faust Overture

DVOŘÁK – Cello Concerto in B Minor BRUCKNER – Symphony No. 6

Enter Bruckner’s expansive soundworld…become one with its sonorities…get carried away by the radiant strings, the majestic brasses, the long-breathed phrases, and, ultimately, the splendor of his music! Now more than ever, Bruckner is a balm for the soul. Leading into the symphony is Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, a work of symphonic grandeur and passion that will showcase the astonishing technique and artistry of Jan Vogler (“…a convincing balance between introspection and drama…” ~ Financial Times). The Romantic vocabulary of Emilie Mayer’s dramatic Overture, exploring Faust’s soul, starts this concert’s journey.

Jan Vogler

YUJA WANG PL AYS RACHMANINOFF

January 14-15, 2023 • Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 3:30 p.m.

Eric Jacobsen, conductor Yuja Wang, piano – Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOFF – Piano Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY

RACHMANINOFF

Hang on tight as piano superstar Yuja Wang (“one of the most talented, enthralling, and even mesmerizing performers on the world scene” ~ HuffPost) takes you on a wild ride with Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto! The composer—a virtuoso himself—packed in plenty of fireworks to challenge even the most athletic of pianists. Yuja also solos in another of his “greatest hits”—the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with the terrifying medieval chant Day of Wrath and the ultra-romantic 18th variation (smelling salts advised in case of swooning!). Plus, Debussy’s iconic (and notorious) masterpiece, from sinuous flute introduction to final languorous bars…erotic reveries in all their voluptuous, ephemeral beauty.

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Yuja Wang

RIMMA PL AYS BRUCH

Thomas Wilkins

March 4-5, 2023 • Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 3:30 p.m.

Thomas Wilkins, guest conductor Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, violin TANIA LEÓN – Pasajes (Florida premiere, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra co-commission) BRUCH – Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 10

Bruch’s superlative Violin Concerto is at once fiery and romantic, sparkling and seductive—and a showcase for our virtuoso Concertmaster Rimma Bergeron-Langlois.

In the Tenth Symphony Shostakovich unleashes his fury against Stalin in a violent, demonic musical battle with pitches equivalent to the initials of his name, D-S-C-H, pounded out like a code that crushes the tyrant in the wild, triumphant finale. Raising the curtain is the OPO premiere of a thrilling new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning CubanAmerican composer Tania León, whose music is “infused with a vigorous pluralism” ( ~ The New York Times).

Rimma Bergeron-Langlois

MAHLER’S 5TH

May 6-7, 2023 • Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 3:30 p.m.

Eric Jacobsen, conductor Inon Barnatan, piano – New work (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra commission; World Premiere) – Piano Concerto No. 1 MAHLER – Symphony No. 5 How do you say “I love you” if you’re Gustav Mahler?

Nothing could surpass the radiant Adagietto movement, scored for strings and harp, of his Fifth Symphony, a gift for his beloved wife Alma. But there’s also raw, intense music and the manic Rondo-Finale that brings this orchestral tour de force to its climax. Love was also in the air in Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto, dedicated to an object of his youthful affection. Inon Barnatan (“One of the most admired pianists of his generation” ~ New York Times) is the soloist for this sometimes brilliant, sometimes gossamer, but always romantic, work. Plus, the world premiere of a muchanticipated new composition by former OPO Composer-inResidence—Orlando’s own—Stella Sung.

STELLA SUNG

MENDELSSOHN

Inon Barnatan

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POPS SERIES: ALL CONCERTS PERFORMED AT STEINMETZ HALL Saturdays at 3:30 & 7:30 p.m.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

November 26, 2022 • 3:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Mauricio Céspedes Rivero, conductor with The Holiday Singers, Connie Brink, director and Opera Orlando Youth Company, Robin Jensen, director Experience the joyful sounds of the season for the first time ever in Steinmetz Hall!

Mauricio Céspedes Rivero

“SOMETHING WONDERFUL: THE SONGS OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN”

January 28, 2023 • 3:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Jeffery Redding, conductor, University of Central Florida Chorus and Vocal Soloists With songs from South Pacific, The Sound of Music, State Fair, The King and I, Carousel, and Oklahoma, this concert features vocalists direct from Broadway and narration by Oscar “Andy” Hammerstein III, grandson of the famed lyricist.

Jeffery Redding Eric Jacobsen

CHRIS THILE IN CONCERT

February 25, 2023 • 3:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Eric Jacobsen, conductor An evening with a groundbreaking musician and recording artist, star of American Public Media’s A Prairie Home Companion and Live from Here as well as a member of the acclaimed bands Nickel Creek and The Punch Brothers, under the baton of Music Director Eric Jacobsen.

“SPIES, LIES, AND TREBLE CLEFS”

Chris Thile

Chelsea Gallo

March 25, 2023 • 3:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Chelsea Gallo, conductor, Vocal Soloists Featuring some of the greatest songs from Spy Movies and TV, this show wows audiences with hits from the James Bond film series, Charlies Angels, Get Smart, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and more.

Michael Krajewski

“LET’S MISBEHAVE - THE SONGS OF COLE PORTER”

May 13, 2023 • 3:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Michael Krajewski, conductor, With Tony DeSare, vocalist, Bria Skonberg, trumpet, John Manzari, tap dancer Here’s a fresh, edgy, and sexy take on the timeless songs of Cole Porter, sung, danced, and played by outstanding guest artists and your Orlando Philharmonic!

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Bria Skonberg John Manzari

FOCUS SERIES: ALL CONCERTS PERFORMED AT THE PLAZA LIVE Mondays at 7:00 p.m.

CELEBRATING PUERTO RICAN HERITAGE

Nestor Torres

October 24, 2022 Guillermo Figueroa, conductor & violin Nestor Torres, flute ROBERTO SIERRA – Fandangos ERNESTO CORDERO – Concertino Tropical MARIANO MORALES – Concerto for Flute and Orchestra SYLVIA REXACH – Di Corazon NESTOR TORRES – Pearl of the Sea

Guillermo Figueroa

HOLIDAY BRASS & PERCUSSION

RIMMA PL AYS MOZART

December 5, 2022

February 6, 2023

Lyman Brodie, conductor

Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, violin & conductor

Seasonal selections and holiday favorites!

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Violin Concerto No. 5 ALFRED SCHNITTKE – Sonata for Violin and Chamber

Orchestra

EDVARD GRIEG – Holberg Suite

Rimma Bergeron-Langlois

Lyman Brodie

STARS OF THE OPO

DVORAK’S 6TH

March 13, 2023

April 17, 2023

Mauricio Céspedes Rivero, conductor Vincent Kiray, horn Nikolay Blagov, clarinet Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, violin

Eric Jacobsen, conductor Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Horn Concerto No. 3 CARL MARIA VON WEBER – Clarinet Concerto No. 1 MAX RICHTER – Four Seasons Recomposed

BEDRICH SMETANA – The Moldau JERRY BOCK / SHELDON HARNICK ARR. ORAN ELDOR – Fiddler Rhapsody & Scherzo FLORENCE PRICE – Violin Concerto No. 2 ANTONIN DVORAK – Symphony No. 6

Vincent Kiray

Nikolay Blagov

Kelly Hall-Tompkins 9

SUMMER SERENADES: ALL CONCERTS PERFORMED AT Sundays at 1:00 p.m., Brunch at Noon

June 19, 2022

RIMMA BERGERON-L ANGLOIS & KEIKO ANDREWS IN RECITAL

July 10, 2022

BRASS QUINTET

July 31, 2022

WOODWIND QUINTET

August 7, 2022

RIMMA & FRIENDS PART 1

August 21, 2022

RIMMA & FRIENDS PART 2

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THE PLAZA LIVE

RESONATE FESTIVAL: ALL CONCERTS PERFORMED AT February 16, 18, 20, 2023

THE PLAZA LIVE

Welcome to Year 2 of the RESONATE FESTIVAL with Artist-in-Residence ANTHONY MCGILL, clarinet

PRELUDE PROGRAM: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

Monday, February 13, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.

The Palmer Room of The Plaza Live Steven Beck, piano BACH – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

A Prelude Program—J.S. Bach’s epic Goldberg Variations— begins this season’s Resonate Festival in a spectacular way, starring pianist Steven Beck, praised as “exemplary” and “deeply satisfying” by Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times. It’s probably not an exaggeration to call the Variations the “Mount Everest” of the solo piano literature, requiring focus, vision, and stamina. And you, the audience, are invited to approach the theme and its 30 astonishing variations with reverence, abandon, solemnity, introspection, and joy.

But whatever emotions you feel, the Goldberg Variations will resonate in your memory long after the last beautiful note has faded into silence.

Steven Beck

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MCGILL, SAINT-GEORGES & BEETHOVEN

DEBUSSY & BEETHOVEN

Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 9:00 p.m.

Main Hall of The Plaza Live Eric Jacobsen, conductor Anthony McGill, clarinet

The Palmer Room of The Plaza Live Anthony McGill, clarinet Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, violin Eric Jacobsen, cello Steven Beck, piano

BOLOGNE, CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES – Clarinet Concerto (transcription of Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 5, No. 2, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra commission; World Premiere) BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 1

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges— violin virtuoso, composer, son of an enslaved mother, colonel in Europe’s first Black regiment, and champion fencer—has finally been rediscovered by the classical music world! In an exciting new guise, the transcribed Clarinet Concerto—replete with both technical flamboyance and lyricism—gets its world premiere performance by Anthony McGill. In the same year Bologne passed from this earth, 1799, Beethoven was deeply immersed in creating his First Symphony, a beautiful amalgam of the classical style and—with unexpected key changes, unusual dynamics, and bold tempos—an audacious step into the new century.

Anthony McGrill

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DEBUSSY – Violin Sonata in G Minor

C. SCHUMANN – Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 BEETHOVEN – Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 11

We dive into Resonate Festival chamber music with Anthony McGill & Co. playing Beethoven’s delightful Op. 11, with our own maestro joining the festivities on cello! Opening the concert is Debussy’s Violin Sonata, the last completed work by a man profoundly affected by war and illness. Still, his swan song captivates— with ferocity, radiant colors, sprinklings of folk music, and, the composer said, “tumultuous joy.” In between, Three Romances by the untilrecently-woefully-neglected Clara Schumann— finally out from behind her husband’s shadow—with her last and most popular chamber work. The keyboard part is testimony to her vast talents as a star pianist.

MCGILL, COPL AND & BERNSTEIN

BRAHMS CL ARINET QUINTET

Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 9:00 p.m.

Main Hall of The Plaza Live Eric Jacobsen, conductor Anthony McGill, clarinet

The Palmer Room of The Plaza Live Anthony McGill, clarinet Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, violin, and members of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

COPLAND – Clarinet Concerto COPLAND – Appalachian Spring BERNSTEIN – Three Dance Episodes from

On the Town It’s a night of all-American music! First up: Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with Anthony McGill center stage. Commissioned and inspired by Benny Goodman, it moves from lyrical and serene to an ever-so-brief soliloquy for the soloist to a rollicking final movement fusing jazz, South American folk tunes, and American dance rhythms. From On the Town—his love letter to the Big Apple—a dance-y Broadway show about the adventures of three sailors on shore-leave during World War II—Bernstein extracted a high-spirited suite that will set your feet to dancing, too! In between, Copland’s quintessentially American Appalachian Spring—full of tenderness, hope, and belief in the future. Listen for fiddle tunes and the beloved Shaker melody “Simple Gifts.”

BRAHMS – Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115

We must all be grateful that Brahms came out of self-imposed “retirement” to compose his four late masterpieces that have made him especially beloved of clarinetists, with this Quintet often regarded as his greatest chamber music achievement. The instrument’s sweet tone evokes moods of melancholy and serenity with an exquisitely dark palette that blends beautifully with the strings—all brought out superbly by our Artist-in-Residence Anthony McGill and the musician-artists of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.

Eric Jacobsen

Rimma Bergeron-Langlois

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MCGILL & MOZART

Monday, February 20, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.

Main Hall of The Plaza Live Eric Jacobsen, conductor Anthony McGill, clarinet MOZART – Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” MOZART – Clarinet Concerto

Mozart’s love for the clarinet’s mellow sound was inspired by the artistry of Anton Stadler—virtuoso, friend, and fellow-Freemason—and nowhere more so than in his beguiling Clarinet Concerto. And in the hands of Anthony McGill it will enrapture you, too, with its breathtaking beauty and sublime melodies. The concert begins with Mozart’s regal “Jupiter” Symphony—his last in the genre—aptly nicknamed for the king of the gods, with drums and trumpets lending a majestic feel and setting a crown upon the composer’s symphonic canon.

Anthony McGrill

EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK

Monday, February 20, 2023 at 9:00 p.m.

The Palmer Room of The Plaza Live Anthony McGill, clarinet Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, violin, and members of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra MOZART – Eine kleine Nachtmusik

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR – Clarinet Quintet

Anthony McGill and members of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra gather for London-born Anglo-African composer Coleridge-Taylor’s magnificent Clarinet Quintet, whose lyrical language is likely to remind you of Brahms and Dvořák. And starting the final chamber concert of this season’s Resonate Festival, one of the most well-known and best-loved works of Classical music, Mozart’s effervescent serenade, “A Little Night Music.” Buoyant, full of life and grace, sparkling! ‘Nuff said!

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Rimma Bergeron-Langlois

SYMPHONY STORYTIME SERIES: THE PLAZA LIVE Saturdays at 10:00a.m. & 11:30 a.m. and Sundays at 11:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.

October 22-23, 2022 December 10-11, 2022 February 11-12, 2023 April 29-30, 2023

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COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES & EVENTS

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LIBERT Y WEEKEND AT MCO

June 18, 2022

HOLIDAY POPS

December 3 & 4, 2022

SPRING POPS IN WINTER PARK

March 19, 2023

THE SPRINGS AT THE SPRINGS COMMUNIT Y, LONGWOOD, FL

April 1, 2023

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