ACCLAIMED VIOLINIST RACHEL BARTON PINE TO MAKE
NEW WEST SYMPHONY DEBUT WITH TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO
Boris Brott Returns as Guest Conductor
Acclaimed
violinist Rachel Barton Pine will
make her New West Symphony debut on the fourth Masterpiece Series concert of the
2012/2013 season playing Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Violin &
Orchestra in D Major, Opus 35. The program will also include Ludwig van
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Opus 55 (Eroica). Founding music director and conductor laureate
Boris Brott will conduct three performances
of the program. The first performance will take place on Friday, February 22,
2013 at 8:00 pm at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center, located at 800 Hobson Way
in Oxnard. The program will be repeated
on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 8:00 pm at the Bank of America Performing
Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand
Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks and on Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 4:00 pm at
Santa Monica’s Barnum Hall, located at 601 Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica.
Tickets:
Tickets priced from $25 to $98 are available by phone, 9:00 am to 5:00
pm, Monday through Friday at 1-866-776-8400.
Tickets are also available in person at the New West Symphony office,
9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday and through the Symphony web site at www.newwestsymphony.org, 24/7. Tickets are
also available at the respective concert hall box offices. Student Rush tickets priced at $10 are
available at the concert hall box offices beginning 30 minutes prior to the
performance.
Hear & Now Live:
This lively and informative, pre-concert discussion about the music on
the program begins at 7:00 pm on Friday and Saturday evenings and 3:00 pm on
Sunday afternoon. The programs are free
and open to ticket holders for the respective performances.
A Chicago native, Rachel Barton Pine began violin studies at
age three and made her professional debut four years later at age seven with
the Chicago String Ensemble. Her earliest appearances with the Chicago Symphony
(at ages ten and fifteen) were broadcast on television. She has since gone on to perform with major
orchestras and in recital around the world.
She has recorded extensively on the Cedille, Warner Classics and Dorian
labels. Ms. Pine’s diverse musical interests range from the Baroque with her
Trio Settecento to heavy metal with her doom/trash metal band Earthen Grave.
When Tchaikovsky finished his Violin Concerto, he sent it to Leopold
Auer, a friend who headed the violin department at the St. Petersburg
Conservatory and who was also Court Violinist to the Czar, hoping to have him
premiere the work. Auer declared the work “unplayable”. It was not until three
years later that it received its premiere.
The concerto is now one of the most popular in the repertory.
Beethoven’s revolutionary “Eroica” Symphony is a work that
changed the course of musical history. There was much sentiment at the turn of
the 19th century that the expressive and technical possibilities of the
symphonic genre had been exhausted. It was Beethoven’s majestic Third Symphony
that threw wide the gates on the unprecedented artistic vistas that were to be
explored for the rest of the century. In a single giant leap, he invested the
genre with the breadth and richness of emotional and architectonic expression
that established the grand sweep that the word “symphonic” now connotes.
New West
Symphony
2012/2013 Masterpiece Series Concert No.
4
Friday, February 22, 2013 8:00 pm
Oxnard Performing Arts Cener
800 Hobson Way, Oxnard
Saturday, February 23, 2013 8:00 pm
Bank of America Performing Arts
Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza
2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard,
Thousand Oaks
Sunday, February 24, 2013 4:00 pm
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica
601 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica
Boris Brott, conductor
Rachel Barton Pine,
violin
Tchaikovsky
|
Concerto in D Major for Violin & Orchestra, Opus
35
|
Beethoven
|
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat
Major, Opus 55 (Eroica)
|
