Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Stars are out for the Summer Symphony

Emanuel Ax to play for Saturday concert


By SABINA DANA PLASSE
Express Staff Writer

Sun Valley Summer Symphony concert will feature Emanuel Ax on piano on Saturday, Aug. 7, at 6:30 p.m.

The stars keep shining bright for the Sun Valley Summer Symphony this season. Adding to the all-star musician appearances will be Emanuel Ax, who will perform Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony on Saturday, Aug. 7.

Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. Recent releases include Strauss's Enoch Arden narrated by Patrick Stewart, discs of two-piano music by Brahms and Rachmaninoff with Yefim Bronfman and soon-to-be-released Mendelssohn Trios with Yo-Yo- Ma and Itzhak Perlman.

Ax has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn's piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. His other recordings include the concertos of Liszt and Schoenberg, three solo Brahms albums, an album of tangos by Astor Piazzolla, and the premiere recording of John Adams's Century Rolls with the Cleveland Orchestra for Nonesuch. In the 2004-05 season, Ax contributed to an International Emmy Award-winning BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The Sun Valley Summer Symphony will also present Concert Previews on Aug. 4, 5 and 7, at 12 p.m. and a special "Meet the Composer" Concert Preview on Aug. 13, at 11 a.m. Concert Previews will take place at The Community School Theater in Sun Valley. Formerly called the Pre-Concert Talks, Concert Previews offer audience members the opportunity to get inside the music and learn more about the concert that will be performed that evening. Concert Previews on Aug. 4, 5 and 7, will be led by San Francisco Symphony Musical Advisor Peter Grunberg.

"Meet the Composer" on Friday, Aug. 13, will be lead by Nathaniel Stookey, composer of "The Composer is Dead," to be performed on Saturday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m. at the annual Sun Valley Summer Symphony Family Concert.

Concert Previews are offered free to the public and no reservations are needed. Concert Previews will be 45 minutes and will allow time for attendees to visit the Sun Valley Summer Symphony orchestra rehearsal that afternoon to hear the music that was discussed.

All evening performances begin a 6:30 p.m. For a complete Sun Valley Summer Symphony program information and concert dates visit www.svsummersymphony.org or call 622-5607.

Sabina Dana Plasse: splasse@mtexpress.com

Symphony schedule

Wednesday, Aug. 4

( Juliana Athayde on violin and Robert Atherholt on oboe will be performing with the orchestra Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version), J. S. Bach's Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C Minor, BWV 1060 and Stravinsky's Suite from The Firebird (1919 version),

Thursday, Aug. 5

( Jennifer Koh on violin who will be performing with the orchestra Puts' Two Mountain Scenes, Barber's Adagio for Strings and Barber's Concerto for Violin, Opus 14.

Friday, Aug. 6

( Summer Music Workshops Concerts featuring students from the Sun Valley Summer Symphony Summer Music Workshops at 3 and 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 7

( Emanuel Ax on piano performing with the orchestra Brahms' Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major for Piano, Opus 83.

Sunday, Aug. 8

( Pops Night: Broadway Rocks! and Housing Host Recognition night.

Monday, Aug. 9

( Alasdair Neale conducts Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

Tuesday, Aug. 10

( Musicians' Choice Chamber Music Concert




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