Orchestra Events
Saturday, 26 June
8 pm, The Granada
Academy Festival Orchestra
Larry Rachleff, conductor
Strauss:
Don Juan, op. 20
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Hailed by the Chicago
Tribune as "a take-charge maestro who invests everything he conducts with deep musical understanding," Larry Rachleff returns for his third Summer Festival to accomplish the astonishing feat of transforming in a mere six days 100 Instrumental Fellows – just arrived in Santa Barbara from all over the globe – into the Academy Festival Orchestra.
Reserved seating: $100 box seats, $48, $38, $28, and $10, includes facility fees
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Saturday, 3 July
8 pm, Lobero Theatre
Academy Chamber Orchestra
Larry Rachleff, conductor
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Winds
Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 for Orchestra, op. 24 no. 1
Haydn: Symphony No. 96 in D Major, Hob I:96 ("The Miracle")
The cool, crisp elegance of the great Stravinsky sound, Hindemith at his impish and raucous best, and the wit and symphonic wisdom of Papa Haydn make for a delicious program, simply not to be missed.
Reserved seating: $38, includes Lobero facility fee
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Saturday, 17 July
8 pm, The granada
Academy Festival Orchestra
Arild Remmereit, conductor
Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead
Barber: Medea's Dance of Vengeance, op. 23a
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Over a five-month period in 2005, Norwegian
conductor Arild Remmereit made five dramatic debuts with the Pittsburgh
Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Milan's Filarmonica della Scala, Munich
Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony, quickly establishing himself as a
major
talent on the international scene. The
New York Times wrote of his Pittsburgh
debut, "He came, he conducted, he conquered ... sensational."
Reserved seating: $100 box seats, $48, $38, $28, and $10, includes facility fees
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Saturday, 24 July
8 pm, The Granada
Academy Festival Orchestra: Concerto Night
Daniel Hege, conductor
Daniel Hege, who serves as music director of the Syracuse
and Wichita symphonies, is
recognized as one of the finest young conductors in the United States.
He will conduct the Academy Festival Orchestra and the talented winners of our
2010 Concerto Competition. Program will be announced July 11.
Reserved seating: $100 box seats, $48, $38, $28, and $10, includes facility fees
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Saturday, 7 August
8 pm, First Presbyterian Church
Academy Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Bach: Brandenburg
Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, op. 93
Nicholas
McGegan has captivated players and audiences alike with his irrepressible
enthusiasm. "An acclaimed expert in 18th century style" (The New Yorker), McGegan, who is music
director of San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, is called upon by
symphony orchestras across the globe to conduct not only the music of Handel,
Haydn, and Mozart, but also Beethoven, Schubert, and Mendelssohn.
Unreserved Seating: $40
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Saturday, 14 August
8 pm, The Granada
Academy Festival Orchestra
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Barber: Symphony No. 1 in One Movement, op. 9
Janácek: Taras Bulba
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, op. 74, Pathétique
Peter
Oundjian's probing musicality and engaging personality have been on
full display over the last two Summer Festivals. The music director of
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has earned critical accolades, thrilled
audiences, and forged relationships with many international ensembles.
Reserved seating: $100 box seats, $48, $38, $28, and $10, includes facility fees
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