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Season 51 | 2016-2017
Prince George’s Philharmonic
RITA SLOAN
JERRY GROSSMAN
ADRIENNE IVEY
MICHAEL MERMAGEN
DAVID PERRY
BRIAN GANZ
A new season of music
Saturday, October 8, 2016 | 8:00 PMBowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MDRichard Rosenberg, conductor candidate; Rita Sloan, piano
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 26
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Dvor̆ák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70
Saturday, November 19, 2016 | 8:00 PMBowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MDStephen Czarkowski, conductor candidate; Jerry Grossman, cello
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a
Bloch: “Schelomo”: Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Saturday, February 11, 2017 | 8:00 PMNorthwestern High School, Hyattsville, MDBrian Stone, conductor candidate Adrienne Ivey, soprano; Northwestern High School Choir
Borodin: Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor (Side-by-Side)
Berlioz: D’Amour l’ardente flamme from La damnation de Faust
Mendelssohn: Infelice, Op. 94
Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G Major, D. 167
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suites 1 and 2
Saturday, March 25, 2017 | 8:00 PMBowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MDJesus Manuel Berard, conductor candidate; David Perry, violin; Michael Mermagen, cello
Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102
Sunday, May 14, 2017 | 3:00 PMDekelboum Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,
College Park, MDAnna Binneweg, conductor candidate; Brian Ganz, piano
Tchaikovsky: Selections from Swan Lake
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Prince George’s Philharmonic
Prince George’s Philharmonic
Season 51 | 2016-2017
Philharmonic Board President Remembers Music Director Charles Ellis as the Prince George’s Philharmonic Moves Forward
E xcitement filled the air a year ago, at the
opening night of the Prince George’s
Philharmonic’s 50th concert season! Maestro
Charles Ellis told the audience that this 50th season
(2015-16) also marked his 15th anniversary as the
Philharmonic’s Music Director, and that he had never
been more excited about the programs that he had
planned. So the celebratory season began - with the
planned six performances, two special recitals, the
return of the orchestra’s previous conductors, and
honors for the longest performing players and staff.
But after the first two concerts, on New Year’s Day 2016, Charles Ellis passed
away unexpectedly, leaving the orchestral community in shock. Through sadness
and tears, the orchestra banded together under Maestro Ellis’s chosen assistant,
Blair Skinner, determined to finish the 50th season as Ellis had planned it.
At the beginning of the final concert of the season, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2,
the “Resurrection,” I could almost hear Chuck’s voice saying “I have never been
more excited about our planned programs.” And what an exciting concert that
was! With the Clarice Smith concert hall nearly filled, and the joyous reception
that followed, I felt that Chuck heard us and joined in the celebration! I think that
all of us felt his presence!
Now we go on to begin our 51st season, planned a full year ago by Charles
Ellis. It will be a different and very special season, for each of our concerts
will be conducted by a candidate to fill the position of Music Director of the
Philharmonic. It will include several of the great monuments of orchestral music,
such as the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto
No. 3, the Schubert Mass in G Major, and the gorgeous Adagietto from Mahler’s
Symphony No. 5; and it will feature outstanding soloists, including previous
favorites, Rita Sloan and Brian Ganz. It will be a challenging, exciting, even
suspenseful season, and, at the end of it, we will choose our next Music Director.
Please join us for this exciting new season of great music!
Mary Ann White, PresidentBoard of Directors
President's Letter
Educational OutreachThe Anne Gentry Educational Outreach Program
provides free music instruction to deserving Prince
George's County public school students who would
otherwise be unable to engage in such instruction.
Students in the Anne Gentry Educational Outreach
Program, also known as “Symphony Kids,” receive
one-on-one music lessons with a qualified teacher
during the school year and free tickets for their
families to attend all Philharmonic concerts. They
also perform in an annual recital.
In addition, our Educational Outreach Program offers an annual
side-by-side for selected students and occasional masterclasses led by
out guest artists. Age 18 and under are admitted free (ticket required)
to all regular concerts of the Philharmonic.
For more information contact Kevin Gillis, 301-446-3245.
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