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The Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of its acclaimed music director Charles Prince, announces its 105th season filled with timeless classics and a rare opportunity to hear some less performed pieces.
The season opening concert, on October 5, 2024, is now entitled simply “Brahms and Mozart.” Brahms’sPiano Quartet No. 1, Op.25 had its premiere in Hamburg in 1861. Schoenberg, a devotee of the music of Brahms, orchestrated the work in 1937. He takes a piece written for four musicians and transforms it into a work for large orchestra. Also on the program is Mozart’sSymphony No. 36, K. 425, “Linz." Mozart wrote it in less than a week while stopping over in the city of Linz on a trip from Vienna to Salzburg with his new bride.The symphony is as complete and sophisticated as any of his other works composed over longer periods.
An “Americana Pops Concert” will be held on November 2, 2024, and will feature tunes by Leroy Anderson, Duke Ellington, Rogers and Hammerstein, Scott Joplin, Stephen Sondheim, John Philip Sousa and more. Audience favorite tenor soloist Brian Cheney will be returning.
The “Annual Free Family Concert” will be held on January 25, 2025.
On March 15, 2025, “Loss and Renewal” will include the Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) by Richard Strauss (his last work), with soprano soloist Tanisha Feliciano. Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82 by Jean Sibelius is a work in three movements and like many of his works, focuses on the national pride of Finland through its natural surroundings.
The concluding concert will be a “Respighi Festival” on April 26, 2025. Works by Ottorino Respighi will include his Ancient Airs and Dances, a suite freely transcribed from original pieces for lute; Concerto Gregoriano, an elegiac work for violin and orchestra built on motifs from Gregorian chant featuring soloist Michael Avagliano; and Pines of Rome, the composer's tribute to scenes around his country's capital, some modern and some recalling the glory of the Roman Empire.
Join us for our upcoming season as we experience old favorites and are introduced to pieces that are less frequently heard as well as newly composed.
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