2024-2025 Concert Season

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2024-2025 Concert Season

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The Phoenix Symphony In Concert

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2024 3:00PM

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Our classical music favorite for over 50 years, The Phoenix Symphony returns to Prescott. Their 1992 album of the music of Aaron Copland received an ECHO Award, continental Europe’s equivalent of the Grammy award.

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The Phoenix Symphony In Performance

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Mozart – Overture to Cosi fan tutte

Schubert – Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major

Beethoven – Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major

Program Subject To Change

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Emanuel Ax appears by arrangement through Opus 3 Artists

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Emanuel Ax is an internationally acclaimed Grammy Award-winning American classical pianist. For 50 years, he has been the main recital partner of Yo-Yo Ma, and since 1990 has been on the faculty on the Juilliard School of Music in New York.

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Emanuel Ax In Performance

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Schoenberg – Drei Klavierstucke, Op.11

Beethoven – Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 Quasi una Fantasia “Moonlight”

Schoenberg – 6 Little Pieces Op,19

Schumann – Fantasy in C Op.17

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Michelle Cann appears through arrangements of The Curtis Institute of Music

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Lauded as a pianist of sterling artistry by Gramophone magazine, Michelle Cann has become one of the most sought-after pianists of her generation. She made her debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2021 and has since performed with many of the prominent American symphony orchestras.

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Michelle Cann in Performance

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Thompson – My Dungeon Shook, Three American Preludes (mvt. 2 and 3)

Still – A Deserted Plantation – Spiritual

Still – A Deserted Plantation – Young Missy

Still – A Deserted Plantation – Dance

Liszt – Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514

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The Dover Quartet appears through arrangement with the Curtis Institute of Music, where it serves as the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence

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One of the greatest quartets of the last 100 years” – BBC Music Magazine

The Dover Quartet players have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet — they’re that good. Expert musicianship, razor-sharp ensemble, deep musical feeling and a palpable commitment to communication made their performances satisfying on many levels” – Chicago Tribune

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years, the multi award-winning Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. Each member of the Quartet is a faculty resident at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

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The Dover Quartet In Performance

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Mendelssohn – Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2

Tchaikovsky – Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2025 3:00PM

Conductor – Alejandro Gómez Guillén

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A favorite of our patrons, The ASU Symphony Orchestra returns to perform a challenging and diverse program. Watch this orchestra and its young performers as they engage with the major works of the orchestral canon.

Opening “a very festive occasion”, William Schuman’s American Festival Overture is a great example of symphonic writing of the mid-twentieth century US, challenging for the orchestra and uplifting for the listener. Though a NY critic found Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto to be “reflective, melancholy and generally depressing”, it has become one of the most loved pieces in the solo cello and symphonic repertoire. We bring it to you with recent concerto competition winner Daniel Kim as our soloist. A recently rediscovered masterpiece, William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony is, in the composer’s own words, “symbolic of the link uniting Africa and her rich heritage with her descendants in America,” using Negro Spirituals in the style of American post-Romantics. We are proud to bring the Arizona premiere of this powerfully poignant piece to life. 

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The ASU Symphony Orchestra In Performance

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Elgar – Cello Concerto

Dawson – Negro Folk Symphony

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APOLLO’S FIRE IN CONCERT

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2025 7:00PM

Conductor & Artistic Director – Jeannette Sorrell

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Emanuel Ax appears by arrangement through Opus 3 Artists

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“a gem of an ensemble” – The New York Times

“When you attend an Apollo’s Fire concert, you know you’re in for a party… a dazzling array of colors and dynamics.” – Chicago Classical Review

Recognized internationally for creative programming, and praised for forging a vibrant approach to early music, Apollo’s Fire’s album Songs of Orpheus won a Grammy Award in 2018.

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Apollo’s Fire In Performance

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A NIGHT AT BACH’S COFFEEHOUSE

Telemann – Don Quixote Suite (selections)

J.S. Bach – Menuet & Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2

J.S. Bach – Concerto for two Violins

J.S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

Vivaldi – Concerto for Four Violins

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The Phoenix Symphony In Concert

TUESDAY MAY 20, 2025 7:00PM

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Our classical music favorite for over 50 years, The Phoenix Symphony returns to Prescott to close out our season. Their 1992 album of the music of Aaron Copland received an ECHO Award, continental Europe’s equivalent of the Grammy award.

Information on the Phoenix Symphony

The Phoenix Symphony In Performance

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Grofe – The Grand Canyon Suite

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