Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NCCO Season Announcement

Last, but not least, New Century Chamber Orchestra announces its 2013-14 season.

The most interesting program, from my perspective, is the February program, which includes Donizetti's one-act opera Rita, though the first half of the program is string arrangements of various non-Wagnerian bleeding chunks. Curious how the Salome Dance of the Seven Veils will sound with a small string orchestra.

The featured composer this year is Michael Daugherty, a popular, easy-listening, blandish, competent composer. The first program is all Daugherty except for Josef Suk's Serenade, Op. 6.  Clarice Assad's Dreamscape makes its return, on a program that includes the premier of a new violin concerto by Daugherty. There's a concert with Chanticleer, repertoire TBA. Well, there's work by a female composer on the season.

Full details after the cut. Update: Fixed the dates, because all of the 2013-14 season concerts are not in 2013. :) (The detailed listing was correct, just not the headers, for the 2014 programs.)



New Century Chamber Orchestra 2013-2014 Season Calendar
Daugherty Perspectives
September 26-29, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013, 8pm, Mountain View Center for Performing Arts, Mountain View    
Friday, September 27, 2013, 8pm, First Congregational Church, Berkeley  
Saturday, September 28, 2013, 8pm, Yerba Buena Center for Performing Arts, San Francisco          
Sunday, September 29, 2013, 5pm, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, Marin

Daugherty:  Viva, for solo Violin
        Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Daugherty:  Viola Zombie (for two violas)
Daugherty: Regrets Only (for violin, cello, and piano)
Daugherty:  Sing Sing J. Edgar Hoover (for string quartet and tape)
Daugherty: Elvis Everywhere (for string quartet and tape)
Daugherty:  Strut (for chamber orchestra)
Suk: Serenade for String Orchestra in E Major, Op.6
Cal Performances Fall Free For All
September 29, 2013
Sunday, September 29, 2013, 11am, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley
Works will include selections from “Daugherty Perspectives” program. To be announced at a later date.
Legacies and Concertos
November 20-24, 2013
Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 8pm, Mountain View Center for Performing Arts, Mountain View 
Friday, November 22, 2013, 8pm, First Congregational Church, Berkeley   
Saturday, November 23, 2013, 8pm, Yerba Buena Center for Performing Arts, San Francisco          
Sunday, November 24, 2013, 5pm, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, Marin
Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile
Arensky: Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
Jones: Elegy
Assad:  Dreamscapes
        Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Daugherty:  Concerto for Violin (World Premiere)
        Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Commissioned by the New Century Chamber Orchestra
Donizetti’s Rita
February 12-16, 2014
Featuring SF Opera Adler Fellows
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 8pm, First Congregational Church, Berkeley          
Friday, February 14, 2014, 8pm, First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto 
Saturday, February 15, 2014, 8pm, SF Jewish Community Center, San Francisco    
Sunday, February 16, 2014, 5pm, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, Marin
J. Strauss (arr. Lindstrom): Overture to Die Fledermaus
Mascagni (arr. Assad): Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Verdi: Prestissimo from String Quartet in E minor
Massenet (arr. Assad): Meditation from Thais
        Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Strauss (arr. Assad): Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
Donizetti: Rita
Atlantic Crossing
March 21-24, 2014
Featuring Chanticleer
Thursday, March 20, 2014, 8pm, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford
Friday & Saturday, March 21 & 22, 2014, 8pm, SF Conservatory of Music, San Francisco   
Sunday, March 23, 2014, 5pm, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, Marin
Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 8pm, First Congregational Church, Berkeley      
*Repertoire to be announced at a later date.
 

4 comments:

Unknown said...

please check your dates as stated, thanks

Lisa Hirsch said...

The dates are directly from NCCO's press release - I'm sure you can see where the typos are.

Unknown said...

thanks, but now it is YOUR post. i thought you were a stickler for details :)

Lisa Hirsch said...

LOL, it depends on how I'm feeling from day to day, and also whether real harm will be done. But I'll fix the dates now. :)