Bainbridge symphony orchestra

Around the World in 80 Minutes

Music Director & Conductor David Upham

November 14 & 15, 2009
Saturday @ 7:30 p.m. & Sunday @ 3:00 p.m. (pre-concert chat 45 minutes ahead of each performance - Saturday @ 6:45 p.m. & Sunday @ 2:15 p.m.)

Tickets
$18 for adults, and $15 for seniors, students, youth, military, and teachers

Sponsors
Music acquisition for the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra's 2009-2010 Season was funded by the Fletcher Bay Foundation.

The Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra will open the 2009-2010 Season with “Around the World in 80 Minutes,” a program celebrating Romantic nationalism in music. The concert begins with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ work for winds called the English Folk Song Suite. The Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra strings then take center stage in Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s suite, From Holberg’s Time, which celebrated the birth anniversary of the 17th century Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg. The full symphony will then perform a suite of music from the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla’s short ballet, “The Three-Cornered Hat,” based on the popular Spanish story of a miller and his wife.

The symphony’s fall program concludes with Symphony No.2 in B minor, by the Russian composer Alexander Borodin. Borodin was one of five nationalistic composers known as the “The Mighty Handful,” who sought to establish a Russian school of composition free from Western European influence. Since its premiere in 1877, the symphony has become one of the most loved works of Russian nationalism. Modest Mussorgsky praised it, saying, “The strength of a lion is behind this symphony. Of all previous music I could at most place Beethoven’s Eroica beside it.”

bso community preview ~

brass quintet

November 6, 2009
Friday @ 5:45 - 6:45 p.m.

Free
At the Pavilion, 403 Madison Avenue North

Classical, old favorites and Dixieland-style music will liven up the Pavilion as a Brass Quintet featuring two trumpets (Terry Nickels and Shelly Devlin), and a trombone (Dick Heine), French horn (Richard Davis) and tuba (Jas Linford) perform an eclectic program in advance of the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra’s November performances at BPA. This special community preview is for music-lovers of all ages.

BSO COMMUNITY PREVIEW ~

STRING/WOODWIND TRIO

November 7, 2009
Saturday midday, during intermission of The Met

Free
At the Pavilion, 403 Madison Avenue North

Members from the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra forming a String/Woodwind Trio will perform during the intermission of the Pavilion's November 7 midday showing of The Met: Live in HD. Join cellist Barbara Deppe, violinist Alan Francescutti, and clarinetist Patricia Beasley for this special free community performance in advance of the symphony's November 14 & 15 concerts.This special community preview is for music-lovers of all ages.

Kitsap Regional Library Bainbridge Island & Bainbridge Performing Arts present

Behind the Score

With Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra Music Director David Upham and musical excerpts from the fall program

November 8, 2009
Sunday @ 3:00 p.m.

Free
At the Bainbridge Library Meeting Room, 1270 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island

This special community presentation offers a “behind the score” sneak preview for Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra’s fall concerts on November 14 & 15, 2009. David will use musical selections to explore the dynamic works of various nationalistic composers.