2020
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Reaching Higher Notes Together
Palm Beach Symphony pinchas zukerman Julian schwarz
olGa kern
vladimir feltsman aleXander toradze
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Message from the Music Director I am very excited to announce our 2020/2021 season! We have programed concerts that I feel represent some of the greatest music for orchestra with some of the most distinguished guest artists of our day. Of course, at the foundation of these programs is the remarkable musicians of the Palm Beach Symphony. Each program is conceived as a special event. Important works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn appear alongside the wonderful compositions of contemporary American composers: George Walker, William Grant Still, and David Diamond. We are so honored to present some of the greatest soloists appearing before the public today, who are all very dear friends of long-standing. Pianist Vladimir Feltsman will join us for a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27. My dear friend from our high school days, Pinchas Zukerman, will join us for a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Alexander Toradze, one of the great pianists of our day, will perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto with us in May. And my son Julian Schwarz will join me on the podium to perform Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 and Dvořák’s Silent Woods for cello and orchestra.
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We are also excited to present a special concert at the Society of the Four Arts in February as a part for their series featuring pianist Olga Kern in a program that features Strauss, Shostakovich, Dvorak, and Irving Fine. After months of rarely hearing music live, what a joy it will be to share the gift of music together in beautiful Palm Beach. Whether you will be joining us online or in person, I can’t wait to see you all in January!
Gerard Schwarz
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The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
New Season, New Horizons The 2020/2021 Masterworks Series will be performed at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts under the direction of Maestro Gerard Schwarz. The first Masterworks concert in January will be livestreamed, and we hope to perform the remainder of the season as a mix of livestream and select seating. For livestream instructions, visit
www.palmbeachsymphony.org/virtual-concert-hall-faq Livestream concerts supported by the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation Arts & Culture Fund of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties All dates, times, programs, artists and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All Concert Photography: Indiehouse Films All Social Event Photography: Capehart Photography Right: Brandon Norris
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Reaching Higher Notes Together Our History & Mission
Palm Beach Symphony is South Florida’s premier orchestra known for its diverse repertoire and commitment to community. Founded in 1974, this 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization adheres to a mission of engaging, educating, and entertaining the greater community of the Palm Beaches through live performances of inspiring orchestral music. The orchestra is celebrated for delivering spirited performances by first-rate musicians and distinguished guest artists. Recognized by The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County with a 2020 Muse Award for Outstanding Community Engagement, Palm Beach Symphony continues to expand its education and community outreach programs with children’s concerts, student coaching sessions and master classes, instrument donations and free public concerts that have reached more than 50,000 students in the past five years. palmbeachsymphony.org /subscribe 5 5
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TELEVISED AIR TIMES
DECEMBER 24 CBS 12 News 8:00 PM DECEMBER 25 CBS 12 News 9:00 AM & 7:00 PM CW34 9:00 AM
Palm Beach Symphony Holiday Concert
DECEMBER 26 CW34 6:00 PM
CBS 12 News presents the season opener as a holiday
HOLIDAY CONCERT SPONSORS:
treat for viewers in a concert that features guest
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Bigelow
violinist Valentina Paolucci, inaugural winner of the
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Johnson
Symphony's Lisa Bruna B-Major Award, performing
The Leonard and Norma Klorfine Foundation
variations of Greensleeves in an arrangement by Schwarz. The program of this first televised performance by Palm Beach Symphony also features arrangements by Schwarz of the seasonal classics
The McNulty Charitable Foundation Dodie and Manley Thaler and The Thaler/Howell Foundation
Silent Night and We Three Kings of Orient Are and beloved melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite No. 1, Op. 71A which include the Overture, Russian Dance and Waltz of Flowers. Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major, arguably one of the most famous and recognizable pieces of classical music, is one of five Palm Beach Symphony premieres on the program. In a timely and uplifting message of hope, the Symphony performs Sleepers Awake from Bach’s Cantata No. 140 based on a popular Lutheran hymn written by a 16th century Lutheran pastor to provide spiritual inspiration to his community ravished by plague. The musical holiday journey ends on a merry note with Anderson's Sleigh Ride.
Guest Violinist Valentina Paolucci
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Photo: Cheryl Mazak
Sunday JANUARY 24, 2021
3:00 PM LIVE STREAMED
from Dreyfoos Hall The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
masterworks one
Pinchas Zukerman performs Beethoven Pinchas Zukerman, one of today’s most versatile and sought-after musicians, joins Palm Beach Symphony in a tour de force program celebrating the recent 250th birthday of Beethoven as he performs Beethoven’s bright and lyrical violin concerto. The Symphony delivers two of the composer’s dramatic works inspired by the battlefield as it performs the Coriolan Overture conveying the bold courage of a warrior and the emotions of the women who love him along with the joyous Symphony No. 7 portraying an exuberant end to war.
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Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
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Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
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Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
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Sunday MARCH 21, 2021
3:00 PM Dreyfoos Hall The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and LIVE STREAMED
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Vladimir Feltsman performs Mozart Guest pianist Vladimir Feltsman displays his acclaimed virtuosity as he performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, which the composer performed himself in the last year of his life brilliantly capturing the joys and complexities of his life and underscoring his musical genius. Palm Beach Symphony adds three captivating works by 20th century composers to its repertoire: David Diamond’s most popular work, the catchy and carefree Rounds for String Orchestra; George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, a mesmerizing exploration of the extent to which those instruments can mirror our emotions; and Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite, an early foray into the neoclassic style in which he would produce a period of masterpieces.
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Rounds for String Orchestra
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Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
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Lyric for Strings
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Pulcinella Suite
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Monday, APRIL 19, 2021
7:30 PM Dreyfoos Hall The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and LIVE STREAMED
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An Enchanted Evening with Julian Schwarz Acclaimed for his powerful tone, effortless virtuosity and extraordinarily large color palate, guest cellist Julian Schwarz reunites with his father on the podium to perform two of the program’s four Palm Beach Symphony premieres. He performs Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1, a work which the Hartford Courant noted of a previous concert by Schwarz, is “filled with tricky figuration…Schwarz heard beyond the virtuosic elements. Warmth and a variety of colors emerged in his lyrical playing.” He also treats the audience to the melodious and tranquil respite of Dvořák: Silent Woods for cello and orchestra. Palm Beach Symphony presents two early works that foreshadowed their composers’ future greatness: William Grant Still’s jazz and blues influenced expression of the Black experience Darker America and Mendelssohn’s fluid and ultimately fiery Symphony No. 1.
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Darker America
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Cello Concerto No. 1, in A minor, Op. 33
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Silent Woods, B. 182
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Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11
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Saturday MAY 22, 2021
7:30 PM Dreyfoos Hall The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and LIVE STREAMED
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Season Finale with Alexander Toradze The season comes to a happy conclusion as guest pianist Alexander Toradze performs Ravel’s lighthearted and sparkling Piano Concerto in G major with its nod to American jazz. In the second Palm Beach Symphony premiere of Ravel on the evening’s program, the Symphony performs Ma Mère l’Oye, or the Mother Goose Suite, which like the fairy tales it celebrates, enchants listeners with a sense of wonder. Brahms first orchestral work, Serenade No. 1 in D, allows the Symphony to shine in a fitting culmination to a landmark season.
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Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) Suite
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Piano Concerto in G major
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Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
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An EXCLUSIVE Concert for Patron Society Members and above Wednesday, FEBRUARY 3, 2021
7:30 PM The Society of the Four Arts
Olga Kern performs with Palm Beach Symphony Seating for this concert is limited and is available only for members at the Patron Society level and above. For more information, please call (561)-281-0145. In a concert that is not part of the Symphony's Masterworks Series at the Kravis Center, Maestro Schwarz leads the orchestra in an intimate performance featuring the celebrated pianist Olga Kern at The Society of the Four Arts. In a program of four new additions to the Symphony’s repertoire that revels in exciting discoveries by musical greats, Kern performs Shostakovich’s first piano concerto, a technically demanding, humorous work the composer originally created to perform himself. An arrangement for full strings by Maestro Schwarz of Richard Strauss’ Sextet from Capriccio captures the genius of Strauss as he set the scene of his final opera. The program concludes with Irving Fine’s Serious Song; A Lament for String Orchestra, with which he firmly takes his place alongside his Boston School contemporaries Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, and Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, an early work that delightfully foreshadows his extraordinary compositional skills.
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(arr. by Schwarz) Sextet from Capriccio
shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 fine
Serious Song, A Lament for String Orchestra
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Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22
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Saturday MARCH 13, 2021
6:00 PM LIVE STREAMED
Single Tickets: FREE!
free virtual family concert
One Small Step One Small Step for A Man, One Giant Leap for Rock Kind!
CONDUCTOR Maestro Gerard Schwarz NARRATOR Brenda Alford CHOREOGRAPHY Demetrius Klein Dance Company
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Over fifty years ago, a brave American man stepped out of a landing craft onto the surface of the moon and made history. With the help of the Demetrius Klein Dance Company and four exciting pieces of all-American music, Palm Beach Symphony brings that indelible moment of Milky Way magic to the stage through an interactive concert in which students will literally take part in exploring such scientific concepts as the Earth’s rotation, gravity and telescope viewing. All this while thrilling to a powerful Copland fanfare, the soaring themes of Star Wars and sharing the adventures of a very special resident of Earth’s satellite, Rocky de Luna, an inquisitive moon rock. With a special narrative accompanied by the music of Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait, students will meet Rocky as she hitches a ride with two friendly NASA astronauts on the Apollo 11 lunar module en route back to planet Earth. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin show Rocky some out-of-this-world views of the moon, help define the moon’s place in the solar system, describe how the moon affects all life on Earth ...and leave Rocky with a sense of wonder and pride in her “rockdom”! copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
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Selections from Star Wars
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Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
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Selections from A Lincoln Portrait (with special space-related text)
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Inaugural Golden Baton Society Dinner Monday, May 24, 2021 6:30 PM 1000 North $500 per person
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Palm Beach Symphony 19th Annual Gala: Sustaining the Note A Virtual Celebration Monday, April 19, 2021 6:30 PM With a Post-Gala Concert Masterworks Three An Enchanted Evening with Julian Schwarz The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and LIVE STREAMED.
Rescheduled for the 2020/2021 season, this exclusive event promises a spectacular evening of music, drinks, and fine dining at 1000 North, the sophisticated waterfront restaurant and private club in Jupiter. Hosted by Patrick & Milly Park, the Honorary Chairs of the Golden Baton Society, as well as Host Chairs Howard and Michele Kessler, and Centennial Honoree Hermé de Wyman Miro, the evening features a performance by violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn, the owner of the 300-year-old "Red Violin" Stradivarius that inspired the film of the same name. Proceeds from the event support the Symphony's mission to engage, educate, and entertain the greater community of the Palm Beaches. Original tickets from the postponed 2020 event remain valid. You can RSVP by phone by contacting Hulya Selcuk at (561) 568-0265 or by email at hselcuk@palmbeachsymphony.org.
Sponsorship and underwriting opportunities available. GALA SPONSOR:
The Addison Hines Charitable Trust
Special Event Inquiries: For all RSVP, Tickets and Sponsorship Opportunities: Hulya Selcuk (561) 568-0265 hselcuk@palmbeachsymphony.org
Elizabeth Pitcairn Photo: Christian Steiner
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Experience a Season of Masterworks. Subscribe Today! Our 2020/21 season is here! By becoming a Virtual Concert Hall subscriber, not only do you get to experience every concert in our Masterworks Series from the comfort of your own home, but you also receive special benefits exclusive to subscribers only! Purchase a package of four concerts to become a subscriber and enjoy an awe-inspiring season of breath-taking performances featuring some of the world's biggest names in classical music, programmed in its entirety by our Music Director Gerard Schwarz. The first Masterworks concert in January will be livestreamed and we hope to perform the remainder of the season as a mix of livestream and select seating. Masterworks series subscribers save $20 when they purchase all four concerts! Masterworks Series Subscription Benefits: 10% Discount on Individual Tickets for Family or Friends Tax Deduction on Unused Tickets Priority Access to In-Person Seats if the Option Becomes Available Special Offers and Events Invitation to attend virtual concert lectures with Maestro Gerard Schwarz Concierge Customer Service Save $20 when purchasing all four concerts
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All concerts live streamed from The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
Order Your Subscription Today! How will this live-streamed season work? This season, once you have purchased your ticket or subscription, the Kravis Center Box Office will be sending you a website address and unique passcode to join us online for the private, live-streamed events you see listed in this brochure. Think of your passcode as a “ticket” to view the concerts.
How many tickets do I need? This season, rather than buying a ticket for each person in your household that would be attending a concert, you only need to buy ONE ticket per household! So, if you typically come to Palm Beach Symphony concerts in a group of two, you would only need one ticket for the both of you to enjoy this concert from home.
Do I have to pay to access the stream? Yes – you can choose to subscribe to all 4 concerts for $100 per household, or you can purchase access to each stream individually for $30 per concert.
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A Season of Higher Notes
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Sponsored in part by the Board of County Commissioners, the Tourist Development Council, and the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County.