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Week 38 (The End...of the downtown season)

as ye sow… HINDEMITH Overture to Neues vom Tage HINDEMITH Trauermusik FRIEDMAN Sacred Heart: Explosion INTERMISSION BERLIOZ Harold in Italy Leonard Slatkin, conductor Pinchas Zukerman, viola All-Access Chamber Series Eugene Izotov, oboe John Bruce Yeh, clarinet Albert Igolnikov, violin Paul Phillips Jr., violin Robert Swan, viola John Sharp, cello Michael Hovnanian, bass Mozart Oboe Quartet Prokofiev Quintet, Op. 39 Brahms Clarinet Quintet Dvorak Slavonic Dance in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 2 Monday off Tuesday 10-12:30 rehearsal 1:30-3:30 Prokofiev quintet rehearsal Wednesday 10-12:30 1:30-3:30 rehearsals Thursday 10-12:30 rehearsal 8 concert Friday 1:30 concert 3:30-6 Prokofiev quintet rehearsal Saturday 2 All-Access Chamber Series concert 8 concert Sunday 3 concert 7:30 Ars Viva Benefit (Week 38 was last week. I’m now on vacation.) After Sunday the orchestra is on vacation until the Ravinia summer season begins in July. Usually we have our main vacation after Ravinia, in August and Septem...

Week 37

Oy Vey! DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 INTERMISSION OLIVER Federal Street (Great God, we sing that mighty hand) HATTON Duke Street (O God, beneath thy guiding hand) ROOT Shining Shore TRADITIONAL Good Night, Ladies BISHOP Home, Sweet Home IVES New England Holidays [redacted] Symphony Chorus Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Monday 2-4:30 Trout Quintet rehearsal Tuesday 10-12:30 rehearsal 12:30-2:30 Prokofiev Quintet rehearsal 7:30 concert (Rameau/Vivaldi) Wednesday 12-2:30 3:30-5:30 rehearsals Thursday 10-12:30 rehearsal 8 concert Friday 9:30-11:30 In-school concerts 1:30 concert 7:30 Trout Quintet concert Saturday 8 concert Sunday 7:30 Ars Viva Benefit rehearsal This week = last week. I’m behind again. We had one of the quirkier podium performances this week. In rehearsals the ratio of talk to useful information conveyed threatened to fall into the red zone. To make matters worse, although more entertaining, the Maestro’s score for the Ives didn’t seem to match the set of parts the players were...