Maestro David Zinman, making his NJPAC debut, conducts the New York Philharmonic and recent MacArthur Foundation Fellow Alisa Weilerstein in a Beethoven and Barber program in NJPAC’s Prudential Hall on Friday, March 9 at 8pm. This performance is part of NJPAC’s Bank of America Classical Series and is presented during the Philharmonic’s three week Modern Beethoven festival in Manhattan under the baton of Zinman.
Tickets are $40-$125 and may be purchased by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at www.njpac.org.
One hour prior to the performance, ticketholders are invited to a free Bank of America Classical Overture – a pre-performance discussion about the evening's program hosted by George Marriner Maull, music director and conductor of The Discovery Orchestra.
Program Information:
New York Philharmonic
David Zinman, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
BARBER Cello Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 was composed primarily at a countryside spa and completed in Linz. It was premiered in Vienna on February 27, 1814. Samuel Barber’s Cello Concerto, composed in 1945, was premiered in 1946 by Raya Garbousova — for whom it was written — and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. It won the 1947 New York Music Critics’ Circle Award and is considered by many to be one of the masterworks of the genre. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 was dedicated to Count Franz von Oppersdorff — at whose palace Beethoven was staying while composing the work. It premiered in March 1807.
About the Artists:
David Zinman made his New York Philharmonic debut in June 1973 and has since conducted the Orchestra 50 times. He is in his 16th season as music director of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. He was music director of the Rotterdam and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (where he is credited as transforming it into a world-class ensemble), as well as music director of the Aspen Music Festival and School and the American Academy of Conducting for 13 years.
