Picnic Fundraiser at N.C. History Center
?Supports Education Concerts in Craven County
A free outdoor concert early next month at New
?Bern?s historic Tryon Palace helps launch the North Carolina
Symphony?s 80th year of service to the state. Symphony Music
Director Grant Llewellyn leads the orchestra and featured pianist
Clara Yang in ?Rhapsody in Blue? on the South Lawn on Saturday,
?June 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Headlining the program is George Gershwin?s jazz-infused
masterpiece for piano and orchestra, Rhapsody in Blue, featuring
rising star and UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member Clara Yang. Praised
by Peninsula Reviews for her ?superb technique and extraordinary
musical understanding,? Yang has performed in Carnegie Hall and
venues across the United States, Netherlands and Australia. She
earned first prizes at the Eastman Rachmaninoff Concerto
Competition, American Prot?g? International Competition, San Jose
Beethoven Competition and San Francisco Chopin Competition, among
others.
Yang joins the Symphony for one of the absolute pinnacles of
American music. Premiered in 1924 when Gershwin was just 26-years-
old, on a concert program billed as an ?Experiment in Modern
Music,? Rhapsody in Blue was immediately hailed as a breakthrough.
In conductor Walter Damrosch?s words, Gershwin ?made a lady out
of jazz,? putting a vibrant, quintessentially American stamp on
classical music orchestration. The work achieved and still maintains
a wide-ranging popularity virtually unmatched by any other American
composition.
?I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America,?
Gershwin said of his writing process, ?of our vast melting pot, of
our unduplicated national pep, of our blues, our metropolitan
madness.?
Rhapsody in Blue is not the only taste of Americana in store for New
Bern concertgoers. Audience members will enjoy selections by
American composers Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, Percy Grainger
and the Symphony?s own bass trombone, Morehead City-native Terry
Mizesko. They are featured alongside orchestral powerhouses in
Johann Strauss?s irresistible Accelerations Waltz and the
enchanting Largo from Anton?n Dvo??k?s ?New World? Symphony.
The Symphony?s performance of the immensely popular ?New World?
Symphony in February 2012 was hailed as an ?unforgettable?
presentation by ?THE cultural treasure of our state,? in
Classical Voice North Carolina. ?The Largo was taken very slowly,
as slowly as possible, perhaps, and the result was absolutely
sublime ? a vast and moving expanse, a deep spiritual journey.?
The public is also invited to purchase tickets to a picnic dinner to
support the North Carolina Symphony?s education concerts in Craven
County. The picnic will be held at the North Carolina History Center
at Tryon Palace beginning at 5:00 p.m. Picnic attendees receive
dinner, reserved parking at the History Center and reserved seats at
the Tryon Palace performance. Picnic tickets are $100/couple. For
information on this opportunity to support the Symphony?s education
concerts in Craven County, call 877.624.6724.
Complete details on the Symphony?s free summer ?Concerts in Your
Community? and its upcoming 80th Anniversary Season can be found
online at www.ncsymphony.org. To celebrate this milestone year,
Music Director Grant Llewellyn has created thrilling concert lineups
featuring high-energy presentations of classical music favorites
along with exciting international collaborations.
The 2012/13 New Bern Series includes three classical concerts:
?Brahms? First Symphony,? ?Tchaikovsky?s ?Path?tique?
Symphony? and ?Four Seasons,? featuring a visit by celebrated
violinist Lara St. John. New Bern audiences will also delight in the
Symphony?s annual celebration of the holiday season, ?Holiday
Pops,? including the orchestra?s ever-popular Christmas carol
sing-along.
Subscriptions to the Symphony?s 2012/13 New Bern Series, as well as
concert series in Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Fayetteville, Southern Pines
and Wilmington, are currently available online at www.ncsymphony.org/subscriptions
or by calling the Symphony Box Office at 919.733.2750 or toll free
877.627.6724.
Tryon Palace is located at 610 Pollock St. in New Bern. The North
?Carolina History Center is located at 529 S. Front St. in New Bern.
The rain site for the concert is Grover C. Fields Middle School,
?2000 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., in New Bern
The concert is presented by PotashCorp, as well as the New Bern
chapter board of the North Carolina Symphony as part of the Tryon
Palace Performing Arts Series. Media sponsorship for the Tryon
Palace Performing Arts Series is provided by Public Radio East. The
statewide partner of the North Carolina Symphony is Progress Energy.
About the North Carolina Symphony
Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony performs over 175
concerts annually to adults and school children in more than 50
North Carolina counties. An entity of the North Carolina Department
of Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 67 professional
musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and
Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry
and Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks.
Based in downtown Raleigh?s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at
the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor
summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony
performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel
Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in
Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington?as well as
individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities
throughout the year?and conducts one of the most extensive
education programs of any U.S. orchestra.
Concert/Event Listings:
North Carolina Symphony
Rhapsody in Blue
Grant Llewellyn, Music Director
Clara Yang, piano
Saturday, June 2, 2012, 7:30pm
Tryon Palace, New Bern
Program Listing:
North Carolina Symphony
Rhapsody in Blue
Grant Llewellyn, Music Director
June 2, 2012
Overture to Candide
Leonard Bernstein
Spoon River
Percy Grainger
Building the Community from Sketches from Pinehurst
Terry Mizesko
Accelerations Waltz, Op. 234
Johann Strauss, Jr./arr. Aubrey Winter
Overture di Ballo
Arthur Sullivan
?The Old North State?
arr. James Bates
The Entertainer
Scott Joplin/arr. John Cacavas
Scherzo from Symphony No. 1 in A-flat Major, ?Afro American?
William Grant Still
Largo from Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, ?From the New World?
Anton?n Dvo??k
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin
Clara Yang, piano
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