SYMPHONY X 2: More than 250 musicians are due on stage Feb. 10 when the Ƶ and University of the Pacific symphony orchestras and Ƶ’ University Chorus present American composer Charles Ives’ landmark Fourth Symphony.
The program also includes Ives’ The Unanswered Question, by both orchestras; and Jean Sibelius’ lavish Violin Concerto, performed by the Ƶ orchestra alone, with D. Kern Holoman, conductor, and violinist Dan Flanagan, the symphony’s artistic adviser, making his solo debut with the orchestra.
The concert is set for 8 p.m. in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
FANTASTIQUE: LECTURE AND MUSIC: The Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra plans a Fantastique day Feb. 17 at the Mondavi Center.
At 2 p.m., Ƶ music professor D. Kern Holoman will lecture on composer Hector Berlioz. In the lobby at the same time, the Alliance Française of Sacramento plans a presentation featuring French music and literature on Berlioz’s life and times.
Then, at 8 p.m., the orchestra is set to perform a concert program that includes Berlioz’s Fantastique.
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DVORÁK SCORES A RICH LEGACY: The great Czech composer Antonín Dvorák conducted the Czech Philharmonic's first concert more than 100 years ago, and, in a performance set for Feb. 22 at Ƶ, the philharmonic plans an all-Dvorák program.
The concert is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center.
The program, under the baton of Leoš Svárovský, is as follows: Carnival Overture, op. 92; Czech Suite, op. 39, D Major; and the much-beloved Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 (From the New World).
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: Their name alone hints at the soothing harmony and swinging rhythms of Sweet Honey in the Rock, an a cappella sextet due on stage at the Mondavi Center on Feb. 23.
Founded in 1973, the all-women group from Washing-ton, D.C., draws its style from gospel, spirituals and hymns of the African American church. A Mondavi Center news release states that the women "merge their powerful voices in rich harmony to the accompaniment of hand-held percussion instruments, delivering a message that variously relates history, points a finger at injustice, encourages activism, and sings the praises of unity and love."
The concert is set for 8 p.m. in Jackson Hall.
Sweet Honey in the Rock received a Grammy Award in 1989 for best traditional folk recording, for a rendition of Leadbelly's Old Grey Goose. Other Grammy nominations include one for the group's most recent recording, Experience 101.
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