Natalie Forbes
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
203-865-0831, ext. 2992
nforbes@newhavensymphony.org
Nicole Gallego
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
203-865-0831, ext. 2991
ngallego@newhavensymphony.org
New Haven Symphony Orchestra Announces
A Season of Celebration
The 115th Anniversary Season
New Haven, CT, May 6, 2008—The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) and Music Director William Boughton are pleased to announce the artists and repertoire for the 2008-09 season. Subscriptions and single tickets are currently available through the box office at the Shubert Theater. For information and tickets, please call 203-562-5666 or visit the NHSO website at newhavensymphony.org.
Our 2008-09 season marks our 115th anniversary and oh what a season! In addition to our seven-concert Symphony Series on Thursday nights at Woolsey Hall, New Haven, a three-concert Pops Series on Fridays at the Shubert Theater, New Haven, and a three-concert Pops Series on Sunday afternoons at Shelton Intermediate School in with selected repeat performances throughout the region— and we are excited to announce that the Orchestra has been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in February.
“I am delighted, and thrilled, to be presenting the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s 2008-09 season of programs and artists. This, my first complete season of programming, represents a stimulating mix of the familiar and not-so-familiar from Gounod’s Ballet Music from Faust to Walton’s First Symphony with a strong emphasis on American music, including a new commission from George Walker in conjunction with Musica Regina who are presenting our Carnegie Hall concert in February 2009. To be performing Elgar in Woolsey Hall; where he received his honorary doctorate from Yale, and where the tradition of playing his Pomp & Circumstance for graduation ceremonies started, will be a real thrill for me as I come from his home county of Worcestershire in England,” remarked NHSO Music Director, William Boughton.
The Symphony Series season opens September 18 with French Twist featuring Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto with soloist Pip Clarke and Mussorgsky’s alluring Pictures from an Exhibition. Rising star Augustin Hadelich headlines our Northern Lights concert, October 16 with Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 which is contrasted with Grieg’s delightful Peer Gynt Suite. November 13 heralds the New Haven debut of world renowned English cellist Raphael Wallfisch, in a concert which pairs cello works by Lalo and Boellman with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Pathetique. Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is sure to delight in the hands of Korean pianist Jennifer Lim in The End of an Era, January 29. On February 26 we present the Amistad Remembrance concert featuring works by Ellington, Coleridge-Taylor, Walker and Schwantner. Guest artists include French violinist Philippe Graffin and the Amistad Academy Ensemble. Our March 26 concert celebrates an all-American line up with works by Copland, Ives, Gershwin, Barber and Bernstein and features the NHSO’s own pianist William Braun as soloist for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The season closes May 14 with A Tempestuous Relationship— from Angela Hewitt’s sublime rendition of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, to Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Walton’s magnificent Symphony No. 1.
The Friday Night Pops Series at the Shubert Theater (with repeat performances on Sundays at Shelton Intermediate School) is sure to delight concertgoers! Associate Conductor Gerald Steichen will lead all three Pops concerts this season. On September 26 we will present Simply Sinatra—an evening of signature classics from Frank Sinatra featuring guest artist and Las Vegas star, Steve Lippia as Ol’ Blue Eyes. Our ever popular holiday tradition continues with Holiday Extravaganza, December 19 featuring bell choirs, guest choirs, and a holiday sing-a-long. You won’t want to miss Best of Broadway, April 24—a tour de force of Broadway hits both old and new with rising star of the Broadway stage Rebecca Robbins.
Symphony Series subscriptions ($60-$360) and single tickets ($10-$65) as well as Pops Series subscriptions ($40-$128) and single tickets ($10-$49) are now available through the Box Office. To purchase tickets call the Shubert Theater Box Office at 203-562-5666 or visit our website at newhavensymphony.org.
For further information, call the New Haven Symphony Orchestra at 203-865-0831 x2991 or visit our website at newhavensymphony.org.
All programs subject to change without notice.
