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SUMMARY:Shostakovich & Six Strings
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]”A musical portrait of Stalin\,” has described Shostakovich’s primarily oppressive and sinister Tenth Symphony\, his first in five years after a Soviet denouncement of his music. Composer Daron Hagen touts the performance of electric guitarist D.J. Sparr on his Electric Guitar Concerto as a “joyous\, celebratory romp.” Desert Transport portrays experiencing the sound sensations of a helicopter in flight.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nThe BPO Coffee Concert Series is presented by Highmark. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram\nRobert Moody\, conductor\nD. J. Sparr\, electric guitar \nMASON BATES  Desert Transport\nDARON HAGEN  Film Noir: Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra\n1. Pacific Coast Highway\n2. Torch Song\n3. You Should See the Other Guy\n4. Maybe Not Today \n–INTERMISSION– \nSHOSTAKOVICH  Symphony No. 10\nI. Moderato\nII. Allegro\nIII. Allegretto\nIV. Andante – Allegro[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Join us after Saturday’s concert for a Musician’s Nightcap! \nMeet us on the lower level after Saturday’s performance for light conversations with BPO musicians and complimentary wine and bites\, hosted by BPO double bassist Jonathan Borden. This special event is FREE and open to all who attend Saturday’s concert.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nAbout D. J. Sparr\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Composer and electric guitarist D. J. Sparr\, who Gramophone recently hailed as “exemplary\,” is one of America’s preeminent composer-performers. He has caught the attention of critics with his eclectic style\, described as “pop-Romantic…iridescent and wondrous” (The Mercury News) and “suits the boundary-erasing spirit of today’s new music world” (The New York Times). Los Angeles Times praises him as “an excellent soloist\,” and the Santa Cruz Sentinel says that he “wowed an enthusiastic audience…Sparr’s guitar sang in a near-human voice.” \nSparr was the electric guitar concerto soloist on the 2018 GRAMMY Award-winning album with JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2011\, Sparr was named one of NPR listeners’ favorite 100 composers under the age 40. He has composed for and performed with renowned ensembles such as the Houston Grand Opera\, Cabrillo Festival\, New World Symphony\, Washington National Opera\, and Eighth Blackbird. His music has received awards from BMI\, New Music USA\, and the League of Composers/ISCM. Sparr is a faculty member at the famed Walden School’s Creative Musicians Retreat in Dublin\, New Hampshire. His works and guitar performances appear on Naxos\, Innova Recordings\, and Centaur Records. \nD. J. lives in Baton Rouge\, Louisiana with his wife Kimberly\, son Harris\, Nannette the hound dog\, and Bundini the boxer. D. J. Sparr’s music is published by Bill Holab Music.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://bpo.org/event/shostakovich-six-strings/2024-02-02/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Masterclass with D.J. Sparr\, electric guitar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra hosts incredible guest artists each year on our Classics Series. We make many of these masters available to the community in our Masterclass series. These artists will work one-on-one with talented local students in front of a live audience. All events are FREE with a required reservation. \nLearn more about guitarist D.J. Sparr. \nMusically advanced high school and college students are invited to apply as a performer for these classes. All applications require a private instructor’s nomination and an audio recording.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Please send application and recording to rpudlewski@bpo.org. \nDEADLINE: Jan 12\, 2024\nMaterials must be received by this date to be considered. All applicants notified by January 19th.  \nQuestions:\nRachael Pudlewski\nAssociate Director of Education\n(716) 242-7822 or rpudlewski@bpo.org[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_btn title=”Apply Now” color=”primary” size=”lg” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbpo.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F11%2FMC-app_D.J.-Sparr.pdf”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://bpo.org/event/masterclass-dj-sparr/
LOCATION:Clement House @ 786 Delaware Ave.\, 786 Delaware Ave.\, Buffalo\, 14209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Disney in Concert: The Sound of Magic
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ron Spigelman\, conductor \nA magical multimedia experience celebrating Disney at 100 and featuring animated sequences on the big screen synchronized to new orchestral arrangements of iconic songs\, plus behind-the-scenes historical footage\, artwork\, and sketches. \nJoin us after Saturday’s concert for our annual Sweetheart Dance in the Mary Seaton Room\, featuring music by Ben Baia and the Big City Horns! This event is free and open to all who attend Saturday’s concert. \n\nPresentation licensed by Disney Concerts. All rights reserved. © Disney[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nThe BPO Coffee Concert Series is presented by Highmark. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://bpo.org/event/disney-in-concert-the-sound-of-magic/2024-02-09/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:New World Symphony
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your BPO presents an evocative musical narration of “From the Diary of Anne Frank\,” composed by former BPO Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Contrasting the program is Antonin Dvořák’s well-known love letter to North America\, “From the New World.”[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram\nTeddy Abrams\, conductor\nCantor-Rabbi Penny Myers\, narrator \n\n\n\nMICHAEL TILSON THOMAS\nFrom the Diary of Anne Frank\nPart 1: Allegro con brio\nPart 2: Lento e lugubre\nPart 3: Allegretto con movimento\n\n\n\nINTERMISSION \n\n\n\nDVOŘÁK \nSymphony No. 9 in E minor\, Op. 95\, “From the New World”\nI. Adagio – Allegro molto\nII. Largo\nIII. Scherzo: Molto vivace\nIV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nAbout Teddy Abrams\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Teddy Abrams\, Musical America’s 2022 Conductor of the Year\, is now in his tenth season as Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra (LO). As profiled by the New York Times\, CBS Sunday Morning\, The New Yorker\, NPR\, Opera News\, the Wall Street Journal\, PBS’ Articulate\, and PBS’ NewsHour\, he has been the galvanizing force behind the orchestra’s extraordinary artistic renewal and innovative community engagement since his appointment in September 2014. \n2023-24 season highlights for Abrams and LO include the mandolinist\, vocalist\, and composer Chris Thile joining them for a leg of their historic multi-season state tour\, “In Harmony – The Commonwealth Tour of the Louisville Orchestra.” Other season highlights include music of Gabriel Kahane and John Adams\, Mahler’s “Tragic” Symphony No. 6\, and “Creators Fest” concerts featuring world premieres of works from the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps. \nAbrams continues to be in high demand as a guest conductor\, this winter making his debut in Helsinki in addition to the BPO\, and returning to the Utah Symphony. Highlights of his 2022-23 season included engagements with the Chicago\, Cincinnati\, Colorado\, Kansas City\, and Pacific Symphonies; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg; and Innsbruck’s Tyrol Symphony Orchestra. \nAn award-winning composer\, in April 2023 Abrams premiered his own Mammoth with cellist Yo-Yo Ma\, bass-baritone Davóne Tines\, and the LO in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave. Other recent compositional highlights include a piano concerto for Yuja Wang\, with which he and the Louisville Orchestra made their Deutsche Grammophon debuts on her March 2023 release\, The American Project\, and Space Variations\, composed for Universal Music Group’s 2022 World Sleep Day. Abrams is now at work on ALI\, a musical about Muhammad Ali scheduled to premiere in fall 2024 in Louisville\, the boxer’s birthplace\, before opening on Broadway in spring 2025. \nOther notable Louisville collaborations include the song cycle The Order of Nature\, composed with Jim James\, vocalist and guitarist for My Morning Jacket\, and recorded with the LO on Decca Gold. On the same label\, Abrams\, the LO\, and singer-songwriter Storm Large recorded All In\, featuring American music by Cole Porter\, Aaron Copland\, and Abrams and Large themselves.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nAbout Cantor-Rabbi Penny Myers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nNative Buffalonian Cantor Penny Myers has been described as “versatile\,” “engaging\,” “warm\,” and “gifted.” Her lyric soprano caught the attention of world-renowned expert in Jewish liturgical music\, Cantor Mordechai Sobol. In 2018 at his invitation\, she recorded the Jewish prayer “Kol Nidrei” at Eshel Studios in Tel Aviv\, Israel and became an international recording artist. After his passing\, Myers learned she was the fifth woman and last Cantor to be recorded in studio with Cantor Sobol.In 1996\, Myers earned a B.A. in music (voice) from Buffalo State University\, where she was a soprano soloist with the Chamber Ensemble’s central European tour. She continued her education at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, earning a Master of Arts in Teaching Music Education in 1999. \nIt was Cantor Myers’ devotion to her faith and desire to keep Jewish musical traditions alive that led her to study under Cantor Benjamin Maissner in Toronto\, earning her Hazzan (Hebrew for ‘Cantor’) credential from the Cantors Assembly. During the pandemic Cantor Myers began studying for the Rabbinate\, and in 2022 she received Rabbinic Ordination from Mesifta Adas Wolkowisk – Rabbinical Academy of America\, making history in Buffalo as the first and only dually ordained Jewish clergy person in Western New York. \nCantor-Rabbi Myers is married to neurologist Dr. Bennett Myers and has three children: Hunter\, Saul\, and Corrinne. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://bpo.org/event/new-world-symphony/2024-02-17/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™ in Concert
DESCRIPTION:Relive the film that started it all. Watch the wand choose the wizard\, a troll run amok and magic mirrors in high definition while a live orchestra performs John Williams’ iconic score. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime event as Harry\, Ron\, Hermione and all your favorite characters return to the screen and enchant the world all over again. \nWIZARDING WORLD and all related trademarks\, characters\, names\, and indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR.
URL:https://bpo.org/event/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-in-concert/2024-02-22/
LOCATION:Shea’s Performing Arts Center\, 646 Main St.\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Music of Elton John with Michael Cavanaugh
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Bradley Thachuk\, conductor\nMichael Cavanaugh\, piano and vocals \nBroadway star Michael Cavanaugh thrills audiences with his spot-on interpretation of Elton John’s iconic hits in this tribute to the legendary singer-songwriter of over 450 tunes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nThis evening’s performance is sponsored by Oliver’s. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nJoin us after the concert for the Feather Boa Ball!\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”39481″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Grab your sequined jackets and feather boas because the Elton John party doesn’t end after the BPO wraps! Join us after the concert for the Feather Boa Ball\, featuring live music by 716 favorite Welcome Distraction! Tickets to the BPO concert are required to attend this special post-concert party.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Add on tickets to the Feather Boa Ball!” color=”juicy-pink” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbpo.org%2Fboa-ball%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] \nFeather Boa Ball sponsored by: \n \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nAbout Michael Cavanaugh\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nMichael Cavanaugh is the new voice of the American Rock & Roll Songbook and a charismatic performer and musician\, made famous for his piano/lead vocals in the Broadway musical Movin’ Out. Handpicked by Billy Joel to star in Movin’ Out\, Cavanaugh evokes a style rivaling the Piano Man. He appeared as the lead role of the show for three years with over 1\,200 performances and received multiple accolades. The show culminated in 2003 with both Grammy and Tony award nominations. \nMichael began playing music at age seven\, when his parents bought their first piano. Encouraged by family and friends and inspired by his hero Billy Joel\, Michael formed his first band at age 10 and began playing local functions\, fine-tuning the craft that would become his chosen career. His first full-time gig as a musician was an extended engagement in Orlando\, Florida at a piano bar called Blazing Pianos. In January of 1999\, Michael received an offer that would unknowingly change his life: an opportunity to play Las Vegas at the famed New York\, New York Hotel and Casino. It was there that Billy Joel spotted Michael and joined him on stage one fateful night of February 2001. It only took two songs before Billy was convinced that he had found his new Piano Man: Michael Cavanaugh. Michael closed up shop at New York\, New York and moved to New York City to work alongside Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp to shape the Broadway musical that would be called Movin’ Out. \nWith the close of Movin’ Out at the end of 2005\, Michael began touring worldwide in his own right\, creating a show that reinterprets the modern pop/rock songbook known as The Music of Billy Joel and Elton John. Michael soon became one of the hottest artists in the private events market\, and continues to perform worldwide. His tours consist of company and charity events\, performing arts centers\, as well as sporting events including many PGA Tour events\, the Super Bowl\, and the Indy 500. His interpretation of the modern rock/pop songbook led to Billboard calling him “The New Voice of the American Rock and Roll Songbook\,” and he was recognized by Reuters as Entertainer of the Year for the private events market. \nIt wasn’t long before symphony orchestras discovered Michael’s talents and audience appeal. He accepted his first orchestral booking\, “Michael Cavanaugh – The Songs of Billy Joel and More\,” which debuted in April 2008 with the Indianapolis Symphony and continues to tour today. In October 2008\, he signed with Warner/ADA to distribute his first CD\, In Color. In June 2010\, Michael debuted his second symphony show in the Generations of Rock series titled “Michael Cavanaugh: The Songs of Elton John and More\,” and then debuted his third symphony show\, “Singers and Songwriters: The Music of Paul Simon\, Neil Diamond and James Taylor\,” in 2012. In 2015\, he debuted his fourth symphony show\, “Rockin’ Christmas with the Pops.” He continues to tour all four symphony productions\, along with performing with his band in performing arts centers and other public venues. \nThe Way I Hear It\, his second commercial album\, was released in April 2017. It debuted at #17 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Recently\, Michael Cavanaugh reached the POLLSTAR Live75 – the top 75 active touring acts in the country – for both his symphony and performing arts center shows. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://bpo.org/event/elton-john/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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