New Brunswick's State Theatre presents the San Francisco Symphony with Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 8pm. The program includes Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9, Op. 70 in E Minor and Beethoven's "Eroica," Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 in E-flat Major. A free pre-performance insight is available. The orchestra series is sponsored by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) maintain a leading presence among American Orchestras through an active touring program, award-winning recordings, and innovative broadcast and education projects. The orchestra appears regularly in Europe, Asia, and cities in the U.S., including annual performances at Carnegie Hall. The SFS most recently toured in Europe in September 2007 with concerts in at leading summer Festivals including appearances at the Proms broadcast on the BBC, Edinburgh, Berlin, Lucerne and Rheingau. Their commitment to music education has resulted in the groundbreaking television, radio and multimedia project Keeping Score; a nationally syndicated radio series on avant-garde American composers, American Mavericks; an award-winning children's website, www.sfskids.com; and Adventures in Music, a nationally acclaimed in-school music education program in San Francisco schools.
The Keeping Score series has been viewed by over 4.5 million Americans since its first broadcast in September 2006 and acclaimed for making classical music accessible to a wider, more diverse audience. Keeping Score has also received multiple international airings in Europe and China and was nominated for a 2007 Rose d'Or Award for Best Arts Documentary and a 2008 Midem Classical Award for Best Arts DVD. Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, performed in each tour venue was featured in the first Keeping Score series.
The two symphonies presented on this concert share a common theme: reflection on the wars of their respective times—the Napoleonic Wars (Beethoven) and the end of World War II (Shostakovich). In this Insight, composer/conductor Raymond Wojcik examines these historical connections as well as the distinctive musical languages of the two symphonies. -- www.statetheatrenj.org
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