Philadelphia’s award-winning Orchestra 2001 is dedicated to premiering, performing, and promoting the music of 20th and 21st-century composers and providing a voice for contemporary music in the classical continuum.
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A Season of Premieres and Anniversaries
GEORGE TURNS 80 and MUSIC AT PENN
James Primosch, Four Sacred Songs
Jay Reise, Chesapeake Rhythms
Anna Weesner, The First Letter (first performance)
George Crumb, excerpts from American Songbooks I-VI
Ann Crumb, Jamie van Eyck, and Barbara Ann Martin, vocal soloists
Brad Smith, guest conductor (for Reise work)
09/25/09 - Friday at 8:00PM – The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
09/27/09 - Sunday at 3:00PM – Swarthmore College’s Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
O2001 salutes Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb on his 80th birthday with performances of excerpts from his monumental American Songbook series, all written for O2001. Works of the current University of Pennsylvania Composition faculty, where Mr. Crumb taught for more than 30 years, will also be performed - including a premiere by Anna Weesner.
(This program is funded, in part, by generous grants from: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Music Project, Beneficia Foundation, and the Theodore Presser Foundation)
SENSATIONAL HILA PLITMANN RETURNS!
Libby Larsen, Sonnets from the Portugese
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Five Images After Sappho
Franz Schreker, Chamber Symphony
11/14/09 - Saturday at 8:00PM – Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia
11/15/09 - Sunday at 7:30PM – Swarthmore College’s Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
2009 Grammy Award winner Hila Plitmann joins James Freeman and O2001 for concerts of music on texts by two remarkable poets: Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Schreker's rarely performed masterwork of 1916 completes this exciting program.
(Ms. Plitmann's appearance is sponsored by the William J. Cooper Foundation of Swarthmore College and Dr. Joel Porter)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM FREEMAN
Andrea Clearfield, A reminiscence sing (first performance)
George Crumb, Sun and Shadow (Philadelphia premiere)
David Finko, Glory to the King (first performance)
James Freeman, Three Songs from the '60s (first performance)
Gerald Levinson, new work
Jay Reise, Luanhuana (first performance)
Andrew Rudin, Celebrations (first performance)
Thomas Whitman, Midsummer Idyll (first performance)
12/13/09 - Sunday at 3:00PM – Swarthmore College's Lang Hall, Swarthmore
We celebrate Orchestra 2001's founder and conductor James Freeman's 70th birthday with the performance of the premieres of 7 new works by Philadelphia-based composers, all written for this occasion - as well as the local premiere of a new song cycle by George Crumb.
SAMUEL BARBER CENTENNIAL
Samuel Barber, Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Andrew Rudin, Piano Concerto (Philadelphia premiere)
Robert Maggio, new work, inspired by Barber's "Knoxville"
Paul Moravec, Violin Concerto (first performance)
Maria Bachmann, violin
Marcantonio Barone, piano
Laura Heimes, soprano
05/22/10 - Saturday at 8:00PM – The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
05/23/10 - Sunday at 3:00PM – Swarthmore College’s Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
This program is partially funded by the Philadelphia Music Project.
FOR MORE INFO AND TIX
www.orchestra2001.org or 267/687-6243, or rgv@orchestra2001.org
One-Night Only!
O2001 JOINS THE PHILADELPHIA SINGERS AND RELACHE
03/06/10 - Saturday at 8:00PM
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts,
3680 Walnut St. Philadelphia
Join The Philadelphia Singers and new music ensembles Relâche and Orchestra 2001 for the world premiere of Persephone by Philip Glass. The program also features the Philadelphia premiere of Steve Reich's You Are (Variations). The concert concludes with the Philadelphia premiere of two laude for female chorus from British composer Gavin Bryars' Cycle Lauda Cortonese. Don't miss this extraordinary concert experience featuring works by some of the giants of contemporary music.
FOR MORE INFO AND TIX
www.orchestra2001.org or 267/687-6243, or rgv@orchestra2001.org
This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Heinz Endowment; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
Orchestra 2001 would like to thank the University of Pennsylvania for its continued generous support of our concert programs.