Riverside Symphony's 2011-2012 Alice Tully Hall Season Announced

Founding Music Director George Rothman will lead Riverside Symphony in three fascinating programs at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center this season. The orchestra's critically acclaimed programming will be in full view in three stimulating concerts blending old, new, familiar and obscure repertory ranging from Elizabethan song to a newly penned work commissioned by Riverside Symphony.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011, at 7:30PM
Have You Heard...?
featuring Yevgeny Kutik, violin
CROCKETT Antiphonies New York Premiere
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in D minor
HAYDN Symphony No. 83 in G minor "The Hen"

Opening the season with a flourish, West Coaster Donald Crockett's crystalline opus showcases a distinct and personable American voice. The dazzling young Kutik, a first prize winner of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, returns to our stage in Mendelssohn's delightful yet lesser-known violin concerto, discovered by Yehudi Menuhin some 100 years after its creation. Sounding as fresh today as it did at its 1785 premiere, Haydn's exquisite symphony ends the program with a smile.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012, at 7:30 PM
Inspirations
featuring Sarah Adams, viola; Dieter Hennings, lute
BRITTEN Lachrymae
DOWLAND Flow My Tears
VIVALDI Concerto in D for Lute
ZOHN-MULDOON Pluck.Pound.Peel. New York Premiere
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

This centenary tribute to Benjamin Britten, featuring our superb principal violist, is preceded by the English Renaissance song upon which his work Lachrymae is based. Vivaldi's sound world, interpreted by one of New York's leading early music specialists, is mirrored by Muldoon's striking newish opus. Inspired by Mexican poet Raúl Aceves' evocative aphorisms, this tour de force sports an exotic array of plucked instruments, harpsichord, strings and percussion with voice. Bach's iconic Brandenburg brings three more Riverside virtuosi front and center.
The performance of Pluck.Pound.Peel. is made possible by a generous grant from The Howard Hanson Fund of the Eastman School of Music.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012, at 7:30 pm
Poetry and Motion
featuring Shai Wosner, piano
HAUSE The Tree Without End World Premiere
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G
POULENC The Story of Babar the Little Elephant, Celebrity narrator TBA

Our season finale opens with the world premiere of new work by Evan Hause, an up-and-coming American composer with something to say and consummate skill with which to say it. The title of this powerful new piece was inspired by a French picture book in which a tree represents the circle of life. In a Riverside Symphony encore appearance, the riveting Wosner, critically acclaimed for performances with the Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, performs Beethoven's poetic masterpiece, and Poulenc's endearing gem, based on the beloved children's tale, charms listeners young and old.

These concerts are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.

For more information, visit riversidesymphony.org.