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Presenter: Tulsa Symphony
Show Dates: Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m.

The Tulsa Symphony opens its season with the pure joy of Mendelssohn and Brahms, and closes this concert with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, an appropriate remembrance of Semptember 11, 2001. In Shostakovich's own words: "The theme of my symphony is the making of a man. I saw man with all his experiences at the center of the composition...In the finale the tragically tense impulses of the earlier movements are resolved in optimism and the joy of living."

Alastair Willis, guest conductor (pictured)

Mendelssohn - Overture from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

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Presenter: Tulsa Symphony
Show Dates: Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m.

For many music lovers, Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony is a summation of everything that had happened in symphonic music up to that point and foreshadows the works of Beethoven. Mozart's revolutionary counterpoint in the fourth movement involves five different melodies simultaneously, making it a challenge for any orchestra that programs it.

The Symphonie Fantastique is Berlioz's most well-known work. This revolutionary masterpiece marked a breakthrough in the composer's career and was the starting point of his mature work as a symphonic composer. The influence of Beethoven is clearly evident, as is Berlioz's genius and originality striking out in uniquely new directions of composition, orchestral color and sound.

Ron Spigelman, guest conductor (pictured)

Mozart - Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

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Presenter: Tulsa Symphony
Show Dates: Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Celebrate Mozart at his best featuring the outstanding solo work of Tulsa Symphony's musicians both in front and throughout the orchestra. In a memorable scene from the film Amadeus, the emperor, upon hearing The Abduction from the Seraglio, tells Mozart, "Too many notes. Just cut a few and it will be perfect." Music critic Alfred Einstein profoundly disagreed with such an assessment, commenting on the second selection on the evening's program, the Sinfonia Concertante, as the "crowning achievement in the field of the violin concerto, superior to his five earlier concerti."

The musical and solo artistry continues with Ravel's La Valse, inspired by Johann Strauss, known affectionately as the "Waltz King." The concert closes with orchestral music from one of Richard Strauss' most enduring and light-hearted works, Der Rosenkavalier.

David Lockington, guest conductor (pictured)
Rossitza Goza, violin, and Jeffrey Cowen, viola

Mozart - Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio
Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Ravel - La Valse
Strauss - Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

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Presenter: Tulsa Symphony
Show Dates: Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m.

The iconic music of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, the David and Goliath-like triumph of Colas Breugnon, the Billboard chart-topping "Blue Tango," and the power and tension of "Danse Bacchanale" from Samson and Delilah make up this program of popular light classic and Broadway favorites. As if that isn't enough for an unforgettable evening, we also are very proud to present the innovative and exciting Quartet San Francisco.

Non-traditional in their delivery, QSF redefines the sound of chamber music. "When the music says swing, we swing. When the music says groove, we groove." Since its concert debut in 2001, the Grammy nominated Quartet San Francisco has offered its exclusive and ground-breaking literature in a variety of venues that include tango and concert halls, jazz festivals, museums, and classrooms all over the world.

Crafton Beck, guest conductor (pictured)
Quartet San Francisco, guest artists

Kabalevsky - Overture to Colas Breugnon
Webber - Selections from Evita
Anderson - Blue Tango
Bernstein - Selections from West Side Story
Saint-Saens - "Danse Bacchanale" from Samson and Delilah
Selections with Quartet San Francisco

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Presenter: Tulsa Symphony
Show Dates: Mar. 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Les Preludes is perhaps the best known of Liszt's tone poems. The composer explained its meaning by saying: "What is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown chant, the first solemn note of which is sounded by death?"

Unlike any previous piano concerto, the Prokofiev Op. 10 Piano Concerto required powerful technique, dazzling speed and unusual strength, which propelled him into the limelight as one of the premier performers and composers of his time.

Symphony No. 3 was Brahms' present to Clara Schumann on her 64th birthday. Brahms had adored Clara from the moment he met her, although the two were reportedly never romantically involved. Clara writes in her letter of thanks to Brahms for his unique present: "I have spent such happy hours with your wonderful creation...What a work! What a poem!...From start to finish one is wrapped about with its mysterious charm."

Gisele Ben-Dor, guest conductor (pictured)
Michael Noble, pianist - Winner of the 2009 Crescendo Award

Liszt - Les Preludes
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms - Symphony No. 3

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Presenter: Tulsa Symphony
Show Dates: Apr. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Egmont by Ludwig von Beethoven is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The composition celebrates the life, heroism and sacrifice of a 16th-century Dutch nobleman condemned to death for having taken a valiant stand against oppression.

Symphony No. 9 is the master's final complete symphony and one of the best-known musical works in history. The symphony unfurls Beethoven's belief in universal freedom, equality and the brotherhood of man. His masterpiece culminates n the powerful final movement in which he sets the words to Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" to a tunen so simply perfect that it remains one of the world's most recognized pieces of music.

Join the Tulsa Symphony as it celebrates Beethoven's embracing of all humanity with his vision

Gerhardt Zimmermann, guest conductor
Vocal Soloists TBA
Tulsa Oratorio Chorus - Tim Sharp, director

Beethoven - Selections from the Incidental Music to Egmont
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral"

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