2016-2017 Concert Season

A Fall Season of Musical Shakespeare (in celebration of the greatest writer’s inspiration in the realm of music during the year of the 400th anniversary of his death)

Berlioz and the Bard

​NICOLAI: Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor (1847)
BERLIOZ: La Mort de Cléopâtre, (1829)
     Coraine Tate, soprano
BERLIOZ: “Je vais le voir,” from Béatrice et Bénédict (1862)
     Caroline Bergan, soprano
BERLIOZ: Roméo et Julliette, Op. 17
     Featuring members of the Antic Shakespeare Company, directed by Jay O’Berski

HAYDN: Symphony No. 92 in G Major, “Oxford” (1789)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music, for sixteen soloists and orchestra
     Words by Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice assembled and directed by David Heid
Music by William Walton (1902 – 1983) from his scores for Lawrence Olivier’s Shakespeare films:
WALTON: Two Pieces for Strings from Henry V (1944)
WALTON: Funeral March from Hamlet (1948)
WALTON: A Shakespeare Suite from Richard III (1955)
WALTON: Prelude from Richard III (1955)
     Featuring members of the Antic Shakespeare Company, directed by Jay O’Berski

PURCELL: “The Gordian Knot Untied,” Suite for Strings (1691)
BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1960)
GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (1868)
I. Allegro molto moderato
     Ian Levitan, piano; 2016-17 Duke Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition winner