Remembrance & Renewal
2011-2012 Season
Remembrance & Revolution
Friday, September 16, 8pm
Ice Auditorium, Melrose Hall
Chamber Orchestra
The works on the first half of this concert are musical remembrances of people and times past. Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin is a set of baroque dance movements, each dedicated to the memory of a friend of the composer who died fighting in WWI, while the Pavane is an expression of musical nostalgia for bygone Spanish customs and sensibilities. Knoxville Summer of 1915, is based on a poem by James Agee recounting the memories of a summer evening as seen through the eyes of a five year old child. The concert concludes with the first symphony of Beethoven, a work that at first recalls much of his symphonic contemporaries, but in reality is the beginning of a true symphonic revolution.
Maurice Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Samuel Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Past & Present
Friday, December 2, 8pm
Ice Auditorium, Melrose Hall
Chamber Orchestra
The second concert of the LCO is an intimate affair featuring the talents of the string section. Six brief works, ranging from the baroque era to the twentieth century, will highlight the radically different sound expectations over 250 years of orchestral string playing. From the crisp and clear sounds of Bach, to the lush sentimentality of Grieg and Brahms, to the Janus-faced works of Diamond and Britten (a reflective look backwards for inspiration combined with a decidedly modern look forward) — there is something to suit the fancy of most musical personalities.
Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder WaltzesJohann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
David Diamond: Rounds for Strings
Heinrich Ignaz von Biber: Battalia
Edvard Grieg: Two Lyric Pieces
Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony
Revelation & Interpretation
Friday, February 24, 8pm
Ice Auditorium, Melrose Hall
Guest Artist: Craig Cramer
Craig Cramer is Professor of Organ and Artist in Residence at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and one of the most traveled organists of his generation. He maintains an active recital career across the country and in Europe. Regularly invited to play some of the most important historic organs in the world, Cramer’s European concerts have included performances in Germany on the 1727 König organ in Steinfeld and the Netherlands on the 1726 Vater organ in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Recently, he performed in Denmark on the Lorentz/Marcusson organ in Roskilde Cathedral.
We are honored that he will be playing Linfield’s own 48 rank Alice Clement Memorial Organ housed in Ice Auditorium (Casavant, 1969).The concert may include pieces from:
Johann Christian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Felix Mendelssohn
Toni Zahnbrecher
Reformation & Consolation
Friday, May 4, 8pm
First Baptist Church, 125 S.E. Cowls St.
Chamber Orchestra & Linfield Concert Choir
Our final concert will feature the combined talents of the LCO, the Linfield Concert Choir, directed by Anna Song, and student soloists. We will open with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, composed in honor of the 300th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession, a key document in the Protestant Reformation. Its final movement is based on the beloved Lutheran “fight song” Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott. The unforgettable strains of Mozart’s Requiem will conclude the performance. The work, long shrouded in mystery and controversy, is a masterpiece of the first order; an encouragement that death is not to be feared, but rather a welcome commencement to the promises of the hereafter.
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem