Strathmore Center Schedule

Strathmore Music Center

 

 

Start & End Date

Time

Theater, Show Title, Describer and Program Notes

Fri 9/10/10

8:00pm

BSO: 2010-11 Season Preview Concert

Marin Alsop, conductor
Ilyich Rivas, guest conductor
Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the BSO in a program of excerpts from the highly anticipated programs that are featured in the 2010-2011 season.

Sun 9/19/10

8:00pm

Homay & The Mastan Group 2010 Tour

Founded in 2005 by Parvaz Homay, The Mastan Group has become one of the most prominent traditional Persian music ensembles from Iran.

Sat 9/25/10

8:00pm

BSO: Mahler’s Seventh Symphony

Marin Alsop, conductor

Program
J.S. BACH arr. MAHLER
Suite
MAHLER Symphony No. 7

Sun 9/26/10

3:00pm

Jake Ehrenreich’s A Jew Grows in Brooklyn

Touching, poignant and hilarious, Jake Ehrenreich’s A Jew Grows in Brooklyn is a family-friendly, rock ’n roll musical comedy of one man's the search for identity and one boy’s desire to be a “regular inner-city kid.” Ehrenreich multimedia journey traverses his family’s survival of the Holocaust, stickball in Brooklyn, and summers in the Catskills

 

 

 

 

Strathmore Mansion Schedule

Strathmore Mansion Schedule

 

 

Start & End Date

Time

Theater, Show Title, Describer and Program Notes

Thur 9/23/10

7:30pm

Music in the Mansion: Asteria, soprano & lute duo
French music from the 14th and 15th centuries

Mon 9/27/10

7:30pm

Music in the Mansion: The NOW Ensemble
This young chamber group that straddles a line between contemporary classical music and indie rock

Thur 9/30/10

7:30pm

Music in the Mansion: Rachel Franklin Quartet
Rachel Franklin, piano & host
Matt Belzer, saxophone
Mike Formanek, bass

Classical and jazz pianist Rachel Franklin kicks off a creative conversation that explores the deep links between these genres. She’s joined by reeds master Matt Belzer and other multi-talented guests to mingle the unique voices of such composers as Duke Ellington, Claude Debussy, Billy Strayhorn and Kurt Weill, blurring the edge between classical works and jazz improvisation, and welcoming listeners to challenge customary assumptions about both.

Thur 10/7/10

7:30pm

Music in the Mansion: Paul Galbraith, classical guitar
This innovative classical guitarist has made it his personal quest to explore the music of Bach, Haydn and Brahms—and to do it, he helped develop the eight-string “Brahms guitar,” which will be featured in this performance.
Program
BACH Cello Suite No.1, BWV 1007
HAYDN Sonata for Keyboard, Hob.29 in F (trans. G)
VON EINIEN 3 Studies, Op. 34
GRANADOS Spanish Dance # 5 “Andaluza
IBENIZ lbeniz Granada & Torre Bermeja

Thur 10/14/10

7:30pm

Music in the Mansion: Jason Vieaux, guitar

Thur 10/28/10

7:30pm

Music in the Mansion: Borealis String Quartet

PROGRAM
HAYDN String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 76
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110
GRIEG String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27