Midsummer Night’s Music with the Bruckner Orchestra
The Bruckner Orchestra led by chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies is Upper Austria’s premier symphony orchestra. It’s also made quite a name for itself worldwide. Later this month, the Bruckner Orchestra will perform at Classics Alfresco. Admission is free.
Classical music, an open-air setting, free for one and all—that’s the motto of Classics Alfresco. There are two evening concerts on this year's lineup. “Working Class (Heroes)” on June 26 includes Symphony No. 2 in B major by Shostakovich, Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and Symphony No. 4 Heroes by Philip Glass. The audience at the “Dance Dance Dance” program on June 27 gets to enjoy, among other treats, excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.”The concert venue is an extraordinary one: the construction site of the Music Theater now going up adjacent to Linz’s Volksgarten park. Thus, superb performances are breathing cultural life into this facility even before its planned completion and official opening in 2011.
Classics Alfresco – Working Class (Heroes)
June 26, 2009, 8:30 PM
Excerpts from:
Igor Stravinsky, Firebird Suite (1919)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 2 in B major, opus 14, symphonic dedication with choral finale (1927) “To October”
Philip Glass, Symphony No. 4 “Heroes” based on music by David Bowie and Brian Eno
Gioachino Rossini, William Tell Overture
Luciano Berio, Variation on Boccherini “Ritirata notturna di Madrid“
Classics Alfresco – Dance Dance Dance
June 27, 2009, 8:30 PM
Excerpts from:
Leonard Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from the musical West Side Story
Franz Xaver Frenzel, Festliche Symphonie in B, the Rieder Symphonie
Kurt Schwertsik, Das Naturtheater von Oklahoma from the ballet Amerika (world premiere of a work commissioned by the Landestheater Linz)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Tea for two (Variation)
Free admission
Details at www.linz09.at/frischluftklassik
The MOVE.ON workshop programme (information and registration at move.on@bruckner-orchester.at) and courses by the Brazilian band Moleque de Rua (information and registration at roiss.m@akooe.at) are being offered in conjunction with the concerts.
