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The Return of Natasha Paremski
Friday & Saturday, May 3 & 4, 2024 at 7:30PM
A Letter from the Music Director

Dear Columbus Symphony Supporter,

Thank you for joining us as for the concluding programs of the 2023-24 Masterworks series.

Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev, April 19-20, will feature Columbus Symphony concertmaster Joanna Frankel performing Prokofiev’s hauntingly beautiful Violin Concerto No. 2, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, and Tchaikovsky’s dramatic and personal fourth symphony.

For The Return of Natasha Paremski, May 3-4, we will welcome audience favorite pianist Natasha Paremski back to Columbus with Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The program will also include Witold Lutosławski’s Symphony No. 1, Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier Suite, and This Moment, a new work by Anna Clyne, commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Rising conductor Kenneth Bean joins the CSO for Beethoven Symphony No. 2, May 17-18. Cellist Thomas Mesa performs two works: a new cello concerto by Jessie Montgomery, and Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. Bookending the program are Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides and Beethoven’s second symphony.

We will close the 2023-24 Masterworks season with Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, May 24-25. The Columbus Symphony Chorus will shine in this program featuring Mozart’s sublime work.

This has been a season full of transformative musical experiences, and we are so pleased that you have been a part of it. On behalf of the entire Columbus Symphony family, thank you for your exceptional support of our orchestra this season, and thank you for joining us to experience the power of music together.

Please enjoy tonight’s performance!

Rossen Milanov,
Columbus Symphony Music Director

Columbus Symphony Musicians

VIOLIN I
Joanna Frankel,
   Concertmaster
   Jack & Joan George
Chair
Gyusun Han,
   Associate Concertmaster 
Sydney Hartwick
Zhe Deng
Zoran Stoyanovich
William Manley
David Edge
Manami White
Leah Burtnett
Sean Klopfenstein


VIOLIN II
Alicia Hui, Principal
   Michael &
   Arlene Weiss Chair
Tatiana Hanna,
   Assistant Principal
Robert Firdman
Ross & Pat Bridgman Chair
David Tanner
Mwakudua waNgure
Gail Sharp
Nick Naegele
Erin Gilliland


VIOLA
Karl Pedersen, Principal
   Gay Su Pinnell Chair
Ken Matsuda
Ye Jin Goo
Alice Risov
Ann Schnapp
Jessica Pasternak
Spencer Ingersoll


CELLO
Luis Biava, Principal
   Andy & Sandy Ross Chair
Luis Parra
Pei-An Chao
Victor Firlie
Nikita Annenkov
Mary Davis


BASS
Rudy Albach, Principal
   Nationwide Chair
John Pellegrino,
   Assistant Principal 
Russell Gill
Jena Huebner

FLUTE
Joseph Niles Watson,
   Principal
Lydia Roth


OBOE
Hugo Souza, Principal
Robert Royse


CLARINET
David Thomas, Principal
   Rhoma Berlin Chair
Mark Kleine


BASSOON
Betsy Sturdevant,
   Principal
   Sheldon &
   Rebecca Taft Chair
Douglas Fisher


HORN
Megan Amos, Principal
Adam Koch
Julia Rose,
   Associate Principal


TRUMPET
Mark Grisez, Principal
   Linda &
   Joe Chlapaty Chair
Jeff Korak


TIMPANI
Benjamin Ramirez,
   Principal
   AEP Foundation Chair


LIBRARIAN
Jean-Etienne Lederer,
   Principal

Program

THE RETURN OF
NATASHA PAREMSKI

 

MASTERWORKS  10
ROSSEN MILANOV, CONDUCTOR
NATASHA PAREMSKI, PIANO
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 

 

WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI

Symphony No. 1
   I. Allegro giusto
   II. Poco adagio
   III. Allegretto misterioso
   IV. Allegro vivace

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

 

--INTERMISSION--

ANNA CLYNE

This Moment

RICHARD STRAUSS

 

Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
I. Attire of the Rose Cavalier and Duet
II. Ochs-Walzes 
III. Tenor Aria 
IV. [Breakfast Scene] 
V. Terzett
VI. [Closing Duet]


 

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