KIRK MUSPRATT MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR
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“a striking complement to Holst’s score … each planet got its own movie that had the crowd as absorbed in a production than any other classical multimedia show in recent memory” – Sun Times
Other Worldly Travel to the stars with Gustav Holst’s The Planets accompanied by a series of awe-inspiring films created by Emmy-nominated astronomer, film director and co-founder of KV265 (Science Through Music Project), Dr. Jose Francisco Salgado. Your extraordinary trip guide, Captain Kirk Muspratt, will debrief each musical planet during his pre-flight Bootkamp. It’s a celestial, musical experience not to be missed!
HEAVENLY BODIES
L OF HO ST SAT, OCT. 3, 7:30p SUN, OCT. 4, 3p TICKETS $49
GUSTAV HOLST
The Planets FEATURING
Dr. José Francisco Salgado, Astronomer
Experience the astonishing playing of Baird Dodge, principal second violin for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Fantastique! Baird Dodge performs Bruch’s most popular concerto, rich with gorgeous melodies. Then, Kirk’s Bootkamp will prepare your mind and ears for Berlioz’s epic Symphonie Fantastique. Through the imagination of a young artist, Berlioz’s melodic images takes you on a musical voyage of heartbreak, drug addiction and an eventual march to the scaffold in this groundbreaking musical creation ... replete with witches, guillotines, and opium-induced hallucinations.
BRUCH
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor BERLIOZ
Rakoczy March Symphonie Fantastique
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SAT, NOV. 14, 7:30p SUN, NOV. 15, 3p TICKETS $49
VIOLIN
Baird Dodge
Emily Birsan has been praised by the Chicago Tribune for her “fineness of expression...” and by The Isthmus (Madison, WI) as having a “…strong, clear, handsomely balanced and beautiful voice.”
New Year’s Eve Maestro Kirk Muspratt is thrilled to bring back guest soprano Emily Birsan to ring in the new-year. Enjoy Ms. Birsan’s “Je Veux Vivre” from Romeo and Juliet, Puccini’s “Quando m’en vo“ from La Boheme accompanied by your New Philharmonic orchestra. Revel in a musical spectrum with traditional Viennese musical selections to include The Blue Danube Waltz and Radetzsky March, polkas, opera arias, and scores from iconic cinema as well as a ton of surprises.
with an International Twist THU, DEC. 31 2p, 6p, 10p TICKETS $65 Sponsored by Terrence J. Taylor and Maureen Sullivan Taylor
SOPRANO
Emily Birsan Raise a glass with New Philharmonic to the thirtieth year at the McAninch Arts Center!
This is a Cosi like you’ve never seen before!
Classic Opera staged as a 2015 reality TV show Mozart’s sparkling score centers on desire and fidelity as two young lovers wager to see whose fiancé will stay faithful in the heat of temptation. This mix of farce, drama, comedy and trickery examines the foibles of love. And stay tuned because “you” the audience will pick which one of three endings is performed each night. In Italian with English supertitles. Sponsored by
FIORDILIGI
DORABELLA
DON ALFONSO
Jessica Faselt
Kathryn Leemhuis
Leo Radosavljevic
FERRANDO
GUGLIELMO
DESPINA
Aaron Short
Paul Scholten
Angela De Venuto
mozart’s
Women are Like That SAT, JAN. 23, 7:30p
MUSIC BY
SUN, JAN. 24, 3p
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
TICKETS $55
STAGE DIRECTOR
Jonathon Field
Mahler’s fourth symphony brings this four-movement piece of heaven to life culminating with soprano Pamela Hinchman singing “Das himmlische Leben.”
Duet or Duel? Two award-winning pianists, Marta Aznavoorian and Winston Choi intertwine their virtuosity on two pianos. This intriguing musical dialogue is enhanced by our “piano–cam” and feels as if you are on-stage with the artists.
FRANCIS POULENC
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Concerto for Two Pianos in D Minor
Carnival of the Animals GUSTAV MAHLER
Symphony No. 4
Dueling Pianos SAT, APR. 16, 7:30p SUN, APR. 17, 3p TICKETS $49
PIANO
Marta Aznavoorian PIANO
Winston Choi SOPRANO
Pamela Hinchman
Von Heidecke’s Chicago Festival Ballet and New Philharmonic present a holiday tradition at the MAC.
Holiday Discount for Subscribers Live orchestra. Magical choreography. Lavish scenery. This full-scale production is a wondrous treat for the entire family.
special pricing Subscribers Only
Von Heidecke’s Chicago Festival Ballet and New Philharmonic Present
SAT, DEC. 19, 2p & 7p SUN, DEC. 20, 1p & 5p TICKETS $31 subscribers only
MUSIC BY
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2015 lakeside pavilion starlight summerstage series
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MOVIES, CONCERTS, JAZZ july – august AUGUST 7 at 7:30p
New Philharmonic Light classics, broadway favorites and music from popular films
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KIRK MUSPRATT MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR
2015–16 SEASON
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The enthusiasm is contagious. You’ll walk away with a whole orchestra of friends and a relationship with a maestro.