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PSO SUNDAY CLASSICAL CONCERT APRIL 13 FEATURES WORLD PREMIERE BY MAINE COMPOSER VINEET SHENDE
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PORTLAND, Maine – The Portland Symphony Orchestra presents its final Sunday Classical concert for the 2007-2008 season on Sunday, April 13 at 2:30 p.m. The matinee performance opens with the world premiere of Three Longfellow Poems by Maine composer and Bowdoin Assistant Professor of Music, Vineet Shende, followed by Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 95 and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite by Richard Strauss. The program features the vocals of the Oratorio Chorale and soprano Elizabeth Weigle, and will be led by guest conductor Paul Polivnick. Maestro Polivnick and composer Vineet Shende will lead the Concert Conversation at 1:15 p.m. in the Rehearsal Hall. This is free for all ticket holders.
Guest Conductor Polivnick has been Music Director of the highly-respected New Hampshire Music Festival since 1993. The Fort Worth Star Telegram claimed, “Polivnick’s style [and] artistic imagination shine...his podium style is lean and intense, with a touch of chorography; he conducts entirely from memory...and his artistic imagination is impressive.”
Composer Vineet Shende’s works have won numerous awards, including the 2001 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Robbins Prize, and have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Taiwan. Recent commissions include a piece for Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra, performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in June 2003.
Special guest soprano Elizabeth Weigle has earned critical acclaim for her unique vocal beauty, savvy musicianship, and dramatic skill, which she lends to a wide variety of musical styles ranging from the Baroque through the 21st Century. For her performances of Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass recently, Milton Moore of The Day (Rhode Island) wrote: "From her first descant soaring above the Kyrie, Weigle was superb… setting the stage in the canonic Credo, she led the performance throughout. ... Weigle set the tone for excellence …."
The next PSO concerts, also in April, will be the popular PSO Pops! and will debut PSO Music Director Designate Robert Moody. The performances will take place Saturday, April 26 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday April 27 at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets for all PSO performances can be ordered online at www.porttix.com, by phone at 207-842-0800, or at the PortTix box office, 20 Myrtle St., Monday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. Discounts are available for students, seniors and groups of 10 or more.
Guest Conductor Polivnick has been Music Director of the highly-respected New Hampshire Music Festival since 1993. The Fort Worth Star Telegram claimed, “Polivnick’s style [and] artistic imagination shine...his podium style is lean and intense, with a touch of chorography; he conducts entirely from memory...and his artistic imagination is impressive.”
Composer Vineet Shende’s works have won numerous awards, including the 2001 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Robbins Prize, and have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Taiwan. Recent commissions include a piece for Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra, performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in June 2003.
Special guest soprano Elizabeth Weigle has earned critical acclaim for her unique vocal beauty, savvy musicianship, and dramatic skill, which she lends to a wide variety of musical styles ranging from the Baroque through the 21st Century. For her performances of Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass recently, Milton Moore of The Day (Rhode Island) wrote: "From her first descant soaring above the Kyrie, Weigle was superb… setting the stage in the canonic Credo, she led the performance throughout. ... Weigle set the tone for excellence …."
The next PSO concerts, also in April, will be the popular PSO Pops! and will debut PSO Music Director Designate Robert Moody. The performances will take place Saturday, April 26 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday April 27 at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets for all PSO performances can be ordered online at www.porttix.com, by phone at 207-842-0800, or at the PortTix box office, 20 Myrtle St., Monday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. Discounts are available for students, seniors and groups of 10 or more.
