Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth!
Guest Conductor: Stephan Fillare
Soloist: Caroline Jamsa, Soprano
Program: BEETHOVEN 250: Valentines for Beethoven
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Elgar from Enigma Variations
Variation #8 “W.N.”
Variation #9 “Nimrod”
Mozart
“Ginuse alfin il momento… deh, vieni” from le nozze di figaro
“Vedrai Carino” from Don Giovanni
Donizetti
“Quel guardo il cavaliere... So anch'io la virtù magica”from Don Pasquale
Beethoven
Symphony No.6, op. 68, F Major (Pastorale)
For his first appearance with NASO, Conductor Stephan Fillare presents a wide-ranging program celebrating Beethoven 250 and Valentine’s Day.
Siegfried Idyll was composed by Wagner as a gift to Cosima, is second wife, to express his love after she gave birth to their son (Siegfried). The Enigma Variations are Elgar’s musical portraits of various friends. Some of his remarks: Variation VIII (W.N. ) “The gracious personalities of the ladies [Winifred Norbury and her sister Florence] are sedately shown.” Variation X. (Nimrod) ‘…the record of a long summer evening talk, when my friend [Augustus J. Jaeger] discoursed eloquently on the slow movements of Beethoven, and said that no one could approach Beethoven at his best in this field, a view with which I cordially concurred.” Mozart and Donizetti arias: Looking and longing for love… soprano Caroline Jamsa plots and plans to get her man ? Symphony No.6, op. 68, F Major (Pastorale): Beethoven was a nature lover and thus his comment: [the Sixth Symphony] is "more the expression of feeling than painting" . Beethoven enjoyed time spent on countryside walks and later wrote: “No one can love the country as much as I do. For surely woods, trees, and rocks produce the echo which man desires to hear.” Stephan Fillare is Assistant Conductor and Concertmaster of New York Repertory Orchestra; he received his Masters in conducting from the Aaron Copland School of Music in 2014.
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