College Music Society Symposium: Respighi Rediscoveries

For music scholars and Respighi enthusiasts! 

In February of 2013, the College Music Society Symposium published Salvatore Di Vittorio's scholarly/research paper on the rediscovered early works of Respighi. The paper is entitled "Ottorino Respighi Before Fountains of Rome: Rediscovered Early Works Foreshadow Later Masterpieces". 

Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/1301g4Z

Fifth Concert Season & Latest News

From our e-newsletter of January 15, 2013:

Fifth Season 2012/13
Chamber Orchestra of New York presents its Fifth Season with concerts at the Church of St. Jean Baptiste, Caspary Auditorium at The Rockefeller University and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall.  The season will conclude with the recording of our third CD for Naxos Records....

Our Music Director Award Medal of Palermo

On November 25, 2012, Mayor Leoluca Orlando awarded the Medal of the City to Palermo native Salvatore Di Vittorio following his successful debut and premieres on November 23 and 24 with Palermo's Philharmonic - Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana at Teatro Politeama....

For more on both stories, please read our latest e-newsletter:
Fifth Concert Season & Latest News

You can also visit our website:
Chamber Orchestra of New York - Concert Season

End of Year Gifts of Music!

Help the Chamber Orchestra as it supports the careers of many leading young professional orchestral musicians in New York. Make an end of year tax-deductible donation by ordering one of our Naxos CDs.

To order, please visit: http://www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org/discography.html

If you have any questions regarding ordering the CDs, please contact us at info@chamberorchestraofnewyork.org

To make general donations, please visit: http://www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org/support_us.html

Read our complete End of Year Newsletter: http://bit.ly/10teTwG

End of Season News! Photos & Videos

Enjoy photos and videos of our End-of-Season Concerts:
May 10th at Merkin Concert Hall & May 31st at The Morgan Library & Museum

 

Click here to view our latest e-newsletter:

End-of-Season News!

Merkin Hall, May 10, 2012 Concert Promo Video

Chamber Orchestra of New York will perform at Merkin Concert Hall/Kaufman Center in New York on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7pm. Antinori Wines will sponsor the post-concert reception.

Below is our promotional video with details of this special program, which includes rediscovered works of Ottorino Respighi and Claudio Monteverdi.

 
Also on the program, music of Gabrieli, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, and John Barry. For more info:
http://www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org/concert_season.html

Or visit Merkin Concert Hall/Kaufman Center Box Office:
http://kaufman-center.org/mch/event/chamber-orchestra-of-new-york-gala-concert-2012

About Rhapsodic Themes Concert at Merkin Hall, May 10th

Our Rhapsodic Themes concert begins with Giovanni Gabrieli’s Canzona Septimi Toni, an exciting fanfare which serves as an appetizer for the music to come.

We will present the U.S. Premiere of the historically-significant restoration of Ottorino Respighi’s Tre Liriche (Three Art Songs) together with Respighi’s orchestration of Claudio Monteverdi’s famous Lamento di Arianna (Ariadne’s Lament) - from Monteverdi’s lost second opera "Arianna," which premiered in 1608. Both works are scored for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and are part of an ongoing commission that Music Director (composer) Salvatore Di Vittorio received from Respighi’s family descendents and archive curator in Italy. We will feature the wonderful Argentinian mezzo Daniela Mack.

The Tre Liriche (Three Art Songs) include Notte (Night), Nebbie (Fog) and Pioggia (Rain), which Respighi had originally set as separate works for mezzo and piano between 1906 and 1912, and then decided to orchestrate as Tre Liriche in 1913 – the same year of its world premiere with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome. Potito Pedarra, the cataloguer of Respighi’s works, himself added the work’s title after the publication of his complete Respighi listing, as Tre Liriche, P. 99a. Luciano Pavarotti had also championed two of the three songs in the 1990s. With permission of the Respighi affiliates, Maestro Di Vittorio has completed Respighi’s orchestration of the extant orchestral manuscript.

The Lamento di Arianna (Ariadne’s Lament) was world premiered in 1908 by the Berlin Philharmonic under conductor Artur Nikisch. Not to be mistaken with other Monteverdi works of the same name, this Lamento is the only extant music from Monteverdi’s lost second opera “Arianna”. Monteverdi later used the music including the now famous “lasciatemi morire” motif in three other works of the same name, including the well-known madrigal Lamento di Arianna which is part of his Madrigals Book VI.

Respighi’ masterful orchestration of Lamento is here restored and edited by Maestro Di Vittorio. Di Vittorio’s critical (first, printed) editions of both the Three Art Songs and Ariadne’s Lament will be published in Italy following their New York premieres on May 10th.

We will then showcase 21-year old Canadian pianist Marika Bournaki in her New York orchestral debut, with a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on Theme by Paganini. This will be an exciting moment for the rising star, and the Chamber Orchestra of New York.

Following intermission, the Chamber Orchestra will give an introductory tribute to legendary English film composer John Barry, by performing one of the composer’s most beloved and famous works – the theme for his Academy Award-winning 1985 score for the film Out of Africa. The orchestra plans a full tribute concert next season in honor of John Barry, especially famous for his James Bond film scores.

The program will conclude with Ludwig van Beethoven’s rhythmically-charged, masterful Symphony No. 8.

For tickets, visit the Merkin Hall Box Office.

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Vogue Italia & Fashion Week Daily mention AcnePaper Event at Pace Gallery, March 14, 2012

The Chamber Orchestra of New York's strings provided live classical music at Pace Gallery on Wednesday for a fantastic Acne Paper event in celebration of Issue No. 13, elegantly organized by PR Consulting. 

Read about the event at Fashion Week Daily's website: http://bit.ly/yCX31C and Blouin Art Info blog: http://bit.ly/ztbMmy. Vogue Italia also mentioned the Chamber Orchestra of NY:http://bit.ly/ynWZzL

"È stato un evento all'insegna della musica quello organizzato da Acne lo scorso 14 marzo alla Pace Gallery di New York per festeggiare il lancio dell'Acne Paper n° 13. La New York Chamber Orchestra ha infatti suonato dal vivo creando l'atmosfera ideale per fare da cornice alle immagini del nuovo issue che questa volta ha come tema conduttore il corpo umano, interpretato da alcuni dei più importanti artisti visivi, e non solo, internazionali.

Tra i personaggi presenti all'evento, solo per citarne alcuni, c'erano Iris Apfel, Joseph Altuzarra, Francisco Costa, Sophie Theallet, Narciso Rodriguez, Michelle Harper, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Linda Fargo, Nicole Miller, Bianca Balti e Derek Blasberg.

"Nella nostra era digitale - ha affermato Thomas Persson, Editor in Chief e direttore creativo di Acne Paper - è rincuorante vedere come la nostra pubblicazione sia diventata un oggetto da collezionisti tra gli amanti di magazine e stampe di tutto il mondo. Diciamo sempre che il nostro ultimo numero è il migliore e la cosa vale anche per il numero 13. Con i suoi numerosi contributi di artisti, fotografi e scrittori eccezionali sarà una gioia lanciarlo nel mondo". - Barbara Sini (Vogue.it) 

Photo courtesy of BFA - more photos can be viewed on the BFA website.