New Philharmonic 2015 Season

KIRK MUSPRATT MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

2015–16 SEASON

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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!

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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.

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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

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DON ALFONSO

Jessica Faselt

Kathryn Leemhuis

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DESPINA

Aaron Short

Paul Scholten

Angela De Venuto

mozart’s

Women are Like That SAT, JAN. 23, 7:30p

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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.

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Von Heidecke’s Chicago Festival Ballet and New Philharmonic Present

SAT, DEC. 19, 2p & 7p SUN, DEC. 20, 1p & 5p TICKETS $31 subscribers only

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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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