YSO 50 - Carnegie Hall Season Finale with Idil Biret and John Mauceri

Event time: 
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall See map
57th and 7th Avenues
New York City, NY

Idil Biret, Piano

Toshiyuki Shimada and John Mauceri, Conductors


Charles Ives                                     The Unanswered Question

Daniel Schlosberg                             Small Talk (World Premiere)  

Paul Hindemith                                 Piano Concerto (1945)

Sir Edward Elgar                               Land of Hope and Glory from “Coronation Ode”

                                                       Janna Baty, Mezzo-Soprano

Adam Guettel                                  Overture to a Fairy Tale Adventure (New York Premiere)

Leonard Bernstein (Arr. Mauceri)        Celebrations from “Mass” (New York Premiere)

                                                       Kyle Guglielmo, Celebrant

                                                         with

                                                       Yale Glee Club, Jeffrey Douma, Music Director

                                                       Elm City Girls Choir, Rebecca Rosenbaum, Music Director

Richard Strauss                                 Festival Prelude  

Event description: 

The Yale Symphony Orchestra concludes its 50th Anniversary Season at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Musical Director Toshiyuki Shimada is joined by John Mauceri, former music director of the YSO (1968-1974), who returns as guest conductor for the concert alongside the Yale Glee Club. The program features works by Yale composers, including a world premiere by YSO alumnus Daniel Schlosberg, Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Guettel’s Overture to a Fairy Tale Adventure, and Hindemith’s 1945 Piano Concerto, featuring Idil Biret, who performed with the YSO in Turkey in 2010, and recorded the complete Hindemith Piano Concerti with the orchestra on the Naxos label in 2013. Also featured are Elgar’s Land of Hope and Glory from “Coronation Ode,” a work that Yale University established as a graduation processional, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s Celebrations from “Mass,” arranged by Mauceri and performed on the Orchestra’s 1972 tour alongside Bernstein himself. Richard Strauss’s Festival Prelude concludes a year of celebration and marks the commencement of a new era in Yale musical tradition.

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