The Philharmonic Society of Orange County

A SUMMER MUSICAL ADVENTURE

Join the Philharmonic Society and Dean and Kaly Corey on a memorable "musical-culinary adventure" on August 1-11, 2008. Attend summer festivals of Europe at Verbier, Switzerland; Lake Constance (Bregenz) and Salzburg, Austria.

Stay at the fabulous contemporary Nevaï Hotel and attend chamber music and orchestra concerts at the Verbier Festival. Journey across the Alps to the Austrian Tyrol for a performance in Bregenz of Puccini'sTosca in a dramatic staging on the shores of Lake Constance. Arrive at the Salzburg Festival for opera, orchestra and chamber concerts and a special theatrical performance with Vanessa Redgrave.

ITINERARY:

Friday, August 1, 2008 - Welcome Cocktail party and orientation in Verbier
Chamber Music at Salle Médran
Leonidas Kavakos violin
Lynn Harrell cello
Hélène Grimaud piano and other artists
Program: Beethoven: Septet and Schubert: Piano Trio D929

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Recital at Église
Lynn Harrell, cello
Yuja Wang, piano
Program: Schubert, Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff

Sunday, August 3, 2008
UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra at Salle Médran
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Kristina Kapustynska, mezzo-soprano
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Program: Shchedrin: La Tzigane Grusha, Schumann: Piano Concerto Op. 54, and Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Monday, August 4, 2008
Travel to Bregenz, Austria

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Opera on Lake Constance
Puccini's Tosca

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Culinary Adventure at Deuringschössle

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Travel to Salzburg, Austria
Vienna Philharmonic at House for Mozart at Salzburg Festival
Vesselina Kasarova, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Nott, conductor
Program: Bach: Fuga BWV 1079, Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Ives: The Unanswered Question, and Schubert: Symphony No. 7

Friday, August 8, 2008
Camerata Salzburg at Mozarteum
Miah Persson, soprano
Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
Marc Minkowski, conductor
Program: Schubert: Music from Rosamunde

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Mozart Matinee at Mozarteum
Mojca Erdmann, soprano
Richard Galler, bassoon
Andrea Marcon, conductor
Program: Mozart: Serenade in D major, KV 203, Mozart: Arias, and Mozart: Symphony in D major

Evening Concert at Mozarteum
Yuuko Shiokawa, violin
Quatuor Mosaïques
Kirill Gerstein, piano
András Schiff, piano
Program: Bach, Beethoven and Busoni

Sunday, August 10, 2008
Opera at Grosses Festspielhaus
Verdi's Otello
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Vienna Philharmonic
Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
Children's Chorus of the Salzburg Festival

Monday, August 11, 2008
Vanessa Redgrave at the Landestheater
Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking"

COST OF PACKAGE: 3,200 Euros per person which includes a ticket to each of ten performances, welcoming cocktail party, transportation (with lunch) between the three festivals, culinary adventure in Bregenz, group dinner and van transportation to the performances in Salzburg.

We have secured reservations for a limited time at the Nevaï in Verbier, the Schwärzler Hotel in Bregenz and the Crowne Plaza Pitter in Salzburg. We can confirm your hotel reservation with your credit card.

If you are interested, please call Kaly Corey at 949.290.4912 BY MARCH 14.

Please join us.

CONDUCTOR SIR NEVILLE MARRINER AND PIANIST YUJA WANG TO REPLACE MURRAY PERAHIA IN UPCOMING PERFORMANCE WITH ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS

Monday, March 17, 2008 – The Academy announced today that conductor Sir Neville Marriner and pianist Yuja Wang will replace Murray Perahia as conductor and soloist for the Philharmonic Society’s presentation of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields on Thursday, March 27, 8pm, at the Orange County Performing Artscenter’s Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Mr. Perahia has regrettably cancelled his participation in the tour due to a skin infection for which he is being treated. In order to ensure a complete recovery, his doctors are not permitting him to perform for the next several weeks. The Academy is grateful to the Zagreb Philharmonic for agreeing to release Sir Neville from his prior engagement with them. The scheduled performance of Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 and Bach Piano Concerto in D major will be replaced by Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 and Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor. The Mozart Symphony No. 31 and Haydn Symphony No. 104 will remain unchanged. Sir Neville Marriner and Yuja Wang will join the Academy in its 11-city U.S. tour from March 25 through April 9.

Sir Neville Marriner founded the Academy 50 years ago in 1958 as a small orchestra focusing on repertoire from the Baroque era, developing a style of performance that launched the 1960s Baroque revival. The Academy has grown to become the most recorded chamber orchestra in the world, known for the award-winning soundtrack to the film Amadeus. Sir Neville continues to work consistently with major orchestras throughout the world.

Twenty-one-year-old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang has firmly established herself as one of the most significant pianists of her generation, already having performed with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Ms. Wang’s recent recital debuts at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco were met with critical acclaim: The Washington Post called her recital “jaw-dropping” and The San Francisco Chronicle wrote “The arrival of Chinese-born pianist Yuja Wang on the musical scene is an exhilarating and unnerving development. To listen to her in action is to re-examine whatever assumptions you may have had about how well the piano can actually be played.” Ms. Wang is currently a student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the winner of the 2006 Gilmore Young Artist Award.