Tucson Symphony Orchestra hopes to find its new music director among the crop of guest conductors to grace its podium next season.
Here's the lineup:
Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s 2015-16 season. Concerts are at Tucson Music Hall unless noted.
• “Rachmaninoff Dance, Copland Romance,” Sept. 25, 27. Guest conductor Andrew Grams. Program: Elgar’s ’In the South” (TSO premiere); Copland’s “The Tender Land Suite” (TSO premiere); Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances.”
• “Masters Mozart & Beethoven,” Oct. 10, 11, Catalina Foothills High School. Guest conductor Stilian Kirov. Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” Overture; Honegger’s ”Pastorale d’été”; Dvořák’s Czech Suite’ Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
• “Music of John Williams,” Oct. 17-18. Guest conductor Robert Bernhardt. • “Best of Both Worlds: Daugherty Debut, Beloved Brahms,” Oct. 23, 25. Guest conductor David Danzmayr featuring guest pianist Terrence Wilson. Bernstein’s Overture to “West Side Story”; Daugherty’s “Deus ex Machina” (TSO premiere); Brahms’ Symphony No. 4.
• “The Strausses & A Young Master,” Nov. 7-8, Catalina Foothills. Guest conductor Keitaro Harada and guest composer in residence Takuma Itoh. J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus Overture (The Bat) J. Strauss’s “Zigeunerbaron” Overture; Itoh’s “Ripple Effect” (world premiere of full orchestra version); R. Strauss’s “Le bourgeois gentilhomme.”
• “Sibelius & Elgar’s Enigmatic Friends,” Nov. 13, 15. Guest conductor David Alan Miller with violinist Elena Urioste. Tower’s “Tambor” (TSO premiere); Sibelius’s Violin Concerto; Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations.
• “Spanish Inspiration, French Impressionism: Ravel & Falla,” Dec. 4, 6. Conductor Peter Bay with TSO oboist David Barford. Ravel’s “Alborada del Gracioso”; de Falla’s “The Three-Cornered Hat Suites No. 1 & 2”; Françaix’s “Flower Clock” (TSO premiere); Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé” Suite No. 2.
• “Messiah,” Dec. 12-13, Catalina Foothills High. Guest conductor Peter Bay with the TSO Chorus.
• “Magic of Christmas,” Dec. 19-20.
• “Moonstruck: Schumann & Schmidt,” Jan. 9-10, 2016, Catalina Foothills High. Conductor laureate George Hanson. Schumann’s “Manfred” Overture; Schmidt’s “Lunar Reflections” (world premiere); Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 “Spring.”
• “Byron Stripling: Sounds of New Orleans,” Jan. 16-17. Guest conductor Stuart Chafetz. Trumpeter performs New Orleans jazz
• “Mahler and Martial Arts,” Jan. 22, 24. Conductor laureate George Hanson featuring guest vocalists mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Richard Cox, and TSO cellist Anne Gratz. Tan Dun’s “Crouching Tiger” Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra; Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” (TSO premiere of full orchestra version). Part of the 2016 Tucson Desert Song Festival.
• “Brandenburg, Jupiter & More Points of Interest,” Feb. 6-7, Catalina Foothills High. Conductor Markus Huber. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3; Stravinsky’s Concerto in E-flat (“Dumbarton Oaks”); Ibert’s Divertimento (TSO premiere); Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter.”
• “Curtis Stigers: Hooray for Love,” Feb. 13-14, 2016.
• “Fountains of Life: Respighi & Strauss,” Feb. 19 and 21, 2016. Conductor José Luis Gomez, with TSO Concertmaster Lauren Roth as soloist. Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome”; Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1; Strauss’s “Death and Transfiguration.”
• “The Chieftains,” Feb. 23, 2016.
• “André Watts Plays Rachmaninoff,” Feb. 27, 2016. Conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann and Grammy-winning pianist André Watts. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
• Mendelssohn’s “Reformation,” March 5-6, Catalina Foothills High. Conductor James Feddeck. Glinka’s “Valse-Fantasie” (TSO premiere); Mozart’s Divertimento K.136; Debussy’s “Children’s Corner” (TSO premiere); Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, “Reformation.”
• Mambo Kings, March 12-13, 2016. Guest conductor Albert-George Schram.
• “Carmina Burana,” March 18, 20, 2016. Conductor Andrew Grams, with the TSO Chorus, Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus and guest vocalists: soprano Sonja Tengblad, tenor Eric Neuville and baritone Charles Wesley Evans. Orff’s “Carmina Burana.”
• “Sailing with Scheherazade,” April 15, 17, 2016. Conductor Mei-Ann Chen. Smetana’s “The Moldau”; Britten’s “Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes”; Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.”
