Posted on Facebook 6/5
“…the light that was all around us now fills us, lifting us into a moment of calm and understanding.” This is how Scott Chamberlain described the final moments of Sibelius’ 6th Symphony in the preview he published yesterday. You will want to read the rest of his insights into this amazingly beautiful and “anti-modern” symphony before you attend the concert tonight or tomorrow (or listen via MPR’s broadcast or live webstream tonight).
And Scott unpacks for us some of the intricate complexities of Sibelius’ manipulation of time and patterns of motion in his one-movement 7th Symphony. But he also talks about the joy of just listening to it: “While the Sixth is serene and luminous, the Seventh is bold and heroic. It is a titanic struggle, played out over majestic themes that rise and fall in wonderful tension with each other that doesn’t slacken until the final note.”
Read Scott’s essay here: https://maskoftheflowerprince.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/sibeliuss-sixth-and-seventh-symphonies-a-preview/
Mahler’s epic 1st Symphony is also on the program tonight and tomorrow, all of this under the direction of maestro Osmo Vänskä. Wow! What a way to end the season!
Find info about tonight’s broadcast here: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/programs/minnesota_orchestra/
Click here or call 612.371.5656 to see if any tickets are still available: http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/buy/tickets/browse-calendar/eventdetail/395/-/season-finale-sibelius-and-mahler#.VXIe2M9Viko
“…the light that was all around us now fills us, lifting us into a moment of calm and understanding.” This is how Scott Chamberlain described the final moments of Sibelius’ 6th Symphony in the preview he published yesterday. You will want to read the rest of his insights into this amazingly beautiful and “anti-modern” symphony before you attend the concert tonight or tomorrow (or listen via MPR’s broadcast or live webstream tonight).
And Scott unpacks for us some of the intricate complexities of Sibelius’ manipulation of time and patterns of motion in his one-movement 7th Symphony. But he also talks about the joy of just listening to it: “While the Sixth is serene and luminous, the Seventh is bold and heroic. It is a titanic struggle, played out over majestic themes that rise and fall in wonderful tension with each other that doesn’t slacken until the final note.”
Read Scott’s essay here: https://maskoftheflowerprince.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/sibeliuss-sixth-and-seventh-symphonies-a-preview/
Mahler’s epic 1st Symphony is also on the program tonight and tomorrow, all of this under the direction of maestro Osmo Vänskä. Wow! What a way to end the season!
Find info about tonight’s broadcast here: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/programs/minnesota_orchestra/
Click here or call 612.371.5656 to see if any tickets are still available: http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/buy/tickets/browse-calendar/eventdetail/395/-/season-finale-sibelius-and-mahler#.VXIe2M9Viko
Posted on Facebook 6/3
Want to help broaden the audiences for classical concerts? TURNBACK your unneeded tickets!
There is always a queue of students and others at the box office on concert nights who need discounted “rush” tickets in order to experience our MN Orchestra. They might be first-timers, they might be on a limited budget. But in any case, if the concert is sold out they need your help to get in!
All of this weekend’s performances are close to sold out, so if you have tickets you can’t use, please go to the Orchestra’s website or call the box office at 612.371.5656 to turn back those tickets. You can exchange them for a future concert or “bank” them for a future exchange or turn them over to the “sponsor a student” program or receive a tax deduction – it’s up to you.
Here’s the easy-to-use webpage for turning back your tickets: https://boxoffice.minnesotaorchestra.org/cart/forms/change.aspx
Let’s get EVERYONE in the audience!
Want to help broaden the audiences for classical concerts? TURNBACK your unneeded tickets!
There is always a queue of students and others at the box office on concert nights who need discounted “rush” tickets in order to experience our MN Orchestra. They might be first-timers, they might be on a limited budget. But in any case, if the concert is sold out they need your help to get in!
All of this weekend’s performances are close to sold out, so if you have tickets you can’t use, please go to the Orchestra’s website or call the box office at 612.371.5656 to turn back those tickets. You can exchange them for a future concert or “bank” them for a future exchange or turn them over to the “sponsor a student” program or receive a tax deduction – it’s up to you.
Here’s the easy-to-use webpage for turning back your tickets: https://boxoffice.minnesotaorchestra.org/cart/forms/change.aspx
Let’s get EVERYONE in the audience!
Posted on Facebook 5/31
“Vänskä conducts Sibelius better than any conductor alive” said the headline when Osmo conducted the London Symphony Orchestra last November. Read it here: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/06/lpo-osmo-vanska-review-sibelius-lemminkainen
Then experience both his brilliant conducting and our Orchestra’s spectacular playing this Thursday, Friday or Saturday evening in the season finale concerts.
Thursday night it’s Sibelius’ Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7 in a one-hour “Symphony in 60” concert. Only a handful of seats are still available. http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/buy/tickets/browse-calendar/eventdetail/460/-/symphony-in-60-sibelius-symphonies-nos-6-7#.VWsLuc9Viko
Friday and Saturday nights hear Sibelius 6 & 7 plus Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “Titan.” Only two handfuls of seats are available for those concerts! http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/buy/tickets/browse-calendar/eventdetail/395/-/season-finale-sibelius-and-mahler#.VWsMeM9Vikq
If you have tickets that you cannot use, please turn them back so that someone else can snatch them up! It’s easy to do here: https://boxoffice.minnesotaorchestra.org/cart/forms/change.aspx
If you have tickets for Friday night, come a little early and join Sibelius expert Paivi King in the Atrium at 7:15pm for a pre-concert lecture, "The Love Story of Jean and Aino Sibelius." This community conversation is part of the Sibelius 150 international celebration this year.
Wow! What a fabulous finale to a breathtaking season! We hope to see you at Orchestra Hall this weekend.
“Vänskä conducts Sibelius better than any conductor alive” said the headline when Osmo conducted the London Symphony Orchestra last November. Read it here: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/06/lpo-osmo-vanska-review-sibelius-lemminkainen
Then experience both his brilliant conducting and our Orchestra’s spectacular playing this Thursday, Friday or Saturday evening in the season finale concerts.
Thursday night it’s Sibelius’ Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7 in a one-hour “Symphony in 60” concert. Only a handful of seats are still available. http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/buy/tickets/browse-calendar/eventdetail/460/-/symphony-in-60-sibelius-symphonies-nos-6-7#.VWsLuc9Viko
Friday and Saturday nights hear Sibelius 6 & 7 plus Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “Titan.” Only two handfuls of seats are available for those concerts! http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/buy/tickets/browse-calendar/eventdetail/395/-/season-finale-sibelius-and-mahler#.VWsMeM9Vikq
If you have tickets that you cannot use, please turn them back so that someone else can snatch them up! It’s easy to do here: https://boxoffice.minnesotaorchestra.org/cart/forms/change.aspx
If you have tickets for Friday night, come a little early and join Sibelius expert Paivi King in the Atrium at 7:15pm for a pre-concert lecture, "The Love Story of Jean and Aino Sibelius." This community conversation is part of the Sibelius 150 international celebration this year.
Wow! What a fabulous finale to a breathtaking season! We hope to see you at Orchestra Hall this weekend.
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