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ARLINGTON SERIES 2002-2003
Los
Angeles Philharmonic • October 19, 2002
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields • November 13,
2002
Itzhak Perlman, violin • January 15, 2003
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra • January
23, 2003
Czech Philharmonic • February 27, 2003
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra • April 4, 2003
 Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director |
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Salonen, Music Director Program Sponsor: The Samuel B. & Margaret C. Mosher Foundation The Los Angeles Philharmonic led by Esa-Pekka Salonen opens CAMA's 84th season performing its 253rd CAMA concert in Santa Barbara since the year of their mutual founding in 1919. American pianist Peter Serkin, recognized the world over as an artist of passion and integrity, is one of the most thoughtful and individualistic musicians appearing before the public today. [Serkin] is one of the supreme musicians of our time. - New York Magazine |
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 CAMA Program signed by Joshua Bell |
Academy
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Bell, Guest Conductor & Violin Program Sponsor: Léni Fé Bland The world's most widely recorded chamber orchestra, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields has set the standard in its chosen repertoire since its founding by Sir Neville Marriner in 1959. Current Artistic Director Kenneth Sillito has been director of the Academy Chamber Ensemble since 1980. Joshua Bell's poetic musicality and magnetic presence have earned him incredible popularity and acclaim over the past 20 years, during which time he has seamlessly evolved from child prodigy to inspired and mature artist. His recording of John Corigliano's score for the film Red Violin won an Academy Award, in 1999, and in 2001 he won his first Grammy Award for his recording of Anglo-American composer Nicholas Maw's Violin Concerto, written especially for Bell. Bell's insatiably passionate violin playing, always searching rather than sentimental, is as refined as it is passionate, and leads as a true soloist, doing it to dazzling effect. - The Times, London |
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 Itzhak Perlman |
Itzhak Perlman | ||
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Rohan
de Silva, Piano Program Major
Sponsor: Michael Towbes/The Towbes Foundation Itzhak Perlman, the undisputed King of The Violin, returns to Santa Barbara to dazzle local music lovers once again. Immediately recognizable by his supreme artistry, irrepressible joy and flawless technique, he remains one of the world's most beloved and celebrated musicians. His recordings have won 15 Grammy awards and his numerous TV appearances have delighted audiences worldwide Ensuring his place as the most popular living violinist. CAMA proudly welcomes the return of the reigning master virtuoso of the violin for another exciting recital. ...the level of virtuosity is astonishing. - The Boston Globe |
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 Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra |
Hungarian
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Zoltán
Kocsis, Piano Soloist & Conductor Program Sponsor:
Herbert J. Kendall Founded in 1923, the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra remains the premier orchestra of Hungary. Under the direction of acclaimed pianist and Music Director, Zoltán Kocsis, the orchestra performs an eclectic all-Hungarian program including Liszt's famed Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major. This Hungarian pianist has that rare ear for the phrase as a whole, the talent to see from the beginning of a line to its end...exercising the continuous melodic reach that eludes other musicians who may be brilliant in matters of detail but short of breath in longer musical sentences. - The New York Times |
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 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor |
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Vladimir
Ashkenazy, Conductor Program Sponsor:
Judith Lynn Hopkinson Founded in 1896, the first performance of the Czech Philharmonic was led by Dvorák. Now under the direction of Chief Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, the world-famous pianist, the orchestra returns to Santa Barbara for an exquisite evening featuring major works by Prokofiev and Debussy. The Czech Philharmonic is the finest ensemble from the Eastern Bloc. - The Washington Post |
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 Richard Goode, Piano |
Orpheus Chamber Ensemble | ||
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Goode, Piano Program Sponsors: The Stephen Hahn Foundation, Herbert J. Kendall Recognized internationally as one of the world's finest chamber orchestras, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra celebrates its 29th season this year. Its annual subscription season at New York's Carnegie Hall is sold out each year featuring collaborations with many of the world's top soloists. Orpheus performs as a collective ensemble, performing without a conductor, giving concerts that are consistently powerful, bold, innovative and exquisitely beautiful. Hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and sensitivity, Richard Goode is today acknowledged as one of the leading interpreters of Beethoven and Mozart. Orpheus remains one of the great marvels of the musical world. - San Francisco Chronicle Richard Goode, the pianist's pianist, a superb artist who attacks the classical repertoire with the full force of his heart and mind. - The Times, London |
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MASTERSERIES AT THE LOBERO 2002-2003
Matt
Haimovitz, cello • October 29 & 30, 2002
Radu Lupu, piano • February 8, 2003
Vermeer Quartet • March 14, 2003
Krystian Zimerman, piano • April 24, 2003
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Performed
over two evenings: Co-sponsor: Carol Valentine Matt Haimovitz has boldly made the transition from youthful prodigy to mature artist with a rare intensity and dedication to his art. Santa Barbara music lovers will remember his early studies with Gabor Rejto at the Music Academy of the West. Recipient of the 1986 Avery Fisher Prize, he was awarded both the Grand Prix du Disque and Gramaphone Magazine's Diapason d'Or for his recording of the Bach Suites for Solo Cello. His Masterseries recitals offer a rare opportunity to hear one of the seminal masterworks of Western music performed in its entirety. The most common point of reference for an American cellist is Yo Yo Ma. Matt Haimovitz is a talent of equal caliber. - Philadelphia Inquirer |
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 Radu Lupu, Piano |
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| Saturday, February 8, 2003 Program Sponsor: The Stephen Hahn Foundation Hailed as one of the greatest living interpreters of Brahms, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, the legendary Romanian-born pianist Radu Lupu. Winner of the 1966 Van Cliburn and the 1969 Leeds Competitions, Lupu is esteemed by both critics and fellow musicians as an artist whose rare musical insight is equalled by the exceptional beauty of his playing. ...one of the two or three truly artistic pianists of his generation. - Detroit Free Press |
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 Vermeer Quartet |
Vermeer Quartet | ||
| Friday, March 14, 2003 Shmuel
Ashkenasi, Violin Program Co-sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board Since its formation in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Vermeer Quartet has remained one of America's premier string quartets, performing regularly at the most prestigious festivals in the world, including Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, Aspen, Spoleto, Ravinia and Casals. The Vermeer, like the artist from whom they take their name, approach their work in a painterly manner — coloring, shading, and framing the view just so, creating marvelous musical pictures. The Vermeer Quartet's glorious recital...was absolutely as good as it gets. - The Washington Post |
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 Krystian Zimerman, Piano |
Krystian Zimerman | ||
| Thursday, April 24, 2003 Program Co-sponsors:
Virginia Castagnola-Hunter Winner of the 1975 Chopin Competition, Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman has remained for over two decades on the most discriminating music connoisseurs' lists of the handful of the greatest living pianists. Of Zimerman, the New York Times wrote: "[His] command of the keyboard and its resources is magnificient." Krystian Zimerman's approach to playing the piano has greatness written all over it. It has intensity, majesty, intimacy, daring and simplicity, and above all insight. - The Times, London |
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