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Peninsula Symphony Presents The 3 B's with Pianist Jon Nakamatsu

San Mateo Performing Arts Center (600 North Delaware St San Mateo, CA 94401)
Nakamatsu-092110
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$38.00
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$19.00*
Jon Nakamatsu kicks off the Peninsula Symphony's 62nd season of "Great Works in Grand Style" with Beethoven's C Minor Concerto. Nakamatsu's pianism has been described as "linear, colorful, idiomatic and often very exciting indeed" by The Washington Post. Other pieces for the evening include Bach's Cantata Chorale: Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Bach's Great Fugue: Clavierubung III, Wir glauben all'an einem Gott and Brahms' Symphony No. 2. A pre-concert lecture begins one hour before the performance.

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The last date listed for The 3 B's was Friday October 15, 2010 / 8:00pm (Pre-Concert Lecture 7:00pm).

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“We are thrilled to welcome the celebrated 1997 Van Cliburn Competition laureate back to perform one of the landmark works of the piano repertoire, Beethoven’s great C Minor Concerto. Nakamatsu and I have a long shared history of collaborative music making,” remarks Music Director and Conductor, Mitchell Sardou Klein.

The program for these concerts consists entirely of major masterworks by “the three B’s.” To begin, Bach’s Cantata Chorale: Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott, and Great Fugue: Clavierubung III, Wir glauben all’an einem Gott come to vibrant symphonic life in the hands of the master conductor and orchestrator Leopold Stokowski the greatest orchestral colorist of all time. Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto stems from his dark, stormy mode, with music that challenges any pianist’s or orchestra’s technical and interpretive powers. Lastly, Brahms’ glorious and triumphal Second Symphony completes this trio of majestic classical benchmark achievements. This is a work of soaring melodies, brooding intensity, and sublime serenity, ending in a blazing finale that leaves the listener breathless.