Pacific Symphony Plays Orff's Carmina Burana, Plus Pianist Yeol Eum Son, Fireworks
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (8808 Irvine Center Drive Irvine, CA 92618)
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Written on Aug 10 2009
This was a most enjoyable evening. The pianist was outstanding and, overall, the entire performance was first rate. Very classy and so well done.
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Albert Watts
Classic music performance was great. Venue does require some endurance uphillWritten on Sep 05 2009
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The best I have ever seen of Pacific Symphony and of this performance. The fireworks at the end were awesome!Written on Aug 10 2009
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AWESOME SEATS DEAD CENTER, PERFORMANCE WAS FABULOUS, FIREWORKS EXTRAORDINARY.Written on Aug 10 2009
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Description
It’s the kind of powerful music everyone knows even if they think they don’t—especially the intense opening chords of the first movement of Carl Orff’s massive choral work “Carmina Burana,” which have become standard fare for hundreds of soundtracks for movies, TV commercials and video games. Pacific Symphony and Music Director Carl St.Clair bring the awe-inspiring “Carmina Burana,” in all of its spine-tingling majesty, to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, where “O Fortuna!” opens and closes the work. Joining the Symphony on stage for “Rhapsody and Rapture,” the third concert of the 22nd summer season, sponsored by The Orange County Register, is Pacific Chorale (John Alexander, artistic director), Southern California Children’s Chorus (SCCC—Lori Loftus, director), and three world-class soloists: soprano Kiera Duffy; tenor Thomas Glenn; and baritone Christòpheren Nomura.
Also on the program is an appearance by the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition’s silver medalist, Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son, playing Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”—the same repertoire that earned her the distinguished title. Scott Cantrell of the Dallas Morning News commented after a recent performance of the young pianist: “Son should have no trouble building a career. She’s got the fingers and the personality—and, at least here, the haut-est couture."
The full Latin title is actually “Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis” (“Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images.”) A big name for a mammoth work, “Carmina Burana” is the best-known work of Orff’s prolific musical career, comprised of a collection of 24 Latin poems by the same name. The cantata is split into three sections celebrating spring, the “joys of the tavern” and “the joys of love,” and single-handedly catapulted the composer into the musical history books. In fact, after its immensely successful premiere by the Frankfurt Opera on June 8, 1937, Orff wrote to his publisher, “Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With ‘Carmina Burana,’ my collected works begin.”
Joining the Symphony on stage are soprano Kiera Duffy (winner of a 2008 Sullivan Foundation grant and a finalist in the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions); tenor Thomas Glenn, a recent graduate of the San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship program; and baritone Christòpheren Nomura, who has been acclaimed the world over as a Mozartean baritone, appearing as Don Giovanni, and Papageno in “The Magic Flute,” the Count in “Marriage of Figaro,” and Guglielmo in “Cosi fan tutte.” All three have performed on opera, concert and recital stages around the globe in repertoire from the Baroque to the 20th century.
About the Ticket Supplier: Pacific Symphony
Pacific Symphony, celebrating its 33rd season in 2011-12, is led by Music Director Carl St.Clair. The largest orchestra formed in the U.S. in the last 40 years, the Symphony is recognized as an outstanding ensemble making strides on both the national and international scene, as well as in its own burgeoning community of Orange County. Presenting more than 100 concerts a year and a rich array of education and community programs, the Symphony reaches more than 275,000 residents--from school children to senior citizens.
The Symphony offers a popular Pops season led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman. The Pops series stars some of the world's leading entertainers, and is enhanced by state-of-the-art video and sound. Each Pacific Symphony season also includes Café Ludwig, a three-concert chamber music series, and "Classical Connections," an orchestral series on Sunday afternoons offering rich explorations of selected works led by St.Clair. Assistant Conductor Maxim Eshkenazy brings a passionate commitment to building the next generation of audience and performer through his leadership of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra as well as the highly regarded Family Musical Mornings series.
The Symphony offers moving musical experiences with repertoire ranging from the great orchestral masterworks to music from today's most prominent composers, highlighted by the annual American Composers Festival. The Wall Street Journal said, "Carl St.Clair, the Pacific Symphony's dynamic music director, has devoted 19 years to building not only the orchestra's skills but also the audience's trust and musical sophistication so successfully that they can now present some of the most innovative programming in American classical music to its fast-growing, rapidly diversifying community."
In addition to its winter home, the Symphony presents a summer outdoor series at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, the organization's summer residence since 1987.