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An Evening with Renée Fleming and Grant Llewellyn

Program

Honoring Music Director Laureate Grant Llewellyn

About the Artists

About the Music

An Evening with Renée Fleming and Grant Llewellyn

Concert and Spring Celebration

An Evening with Renée Fleming and Grant Llewellyn

Sat, May 14, 2022 | 8pm
MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, WOOLNER STAGE
DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, RALEIGH

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Program

North Carolina Symphony
Grant Llewellyn conductor
Renée Fleming, soprano

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture to Semiramide

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Shéhérazade
Renée Fleming, soprano
I. Asie [Asia]
II. La Flûte enchantée [The Enchanted Flute]
III. L’Indifférent [The Indifferent One]

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Cappriccio espagnol, Op. 34
I. Alborada
II. Variazioni
III. Alborada

Intermission

Maria Schneider (b. 1960)
Selections from Winter Morning Walks
Renée Fleming, soprano
Walking by Flashlight
Our Finch Feeder
Spring, the Sky Rippled with Geese

Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
“Musette svaria sulla bocca viva”
from La Bohème
Renée Fleming, soprano

Francesco Cilea (1866-1950)
“Io son l’umile ancella”
from Adriana Lecouvreur
Renée Fleming, soprano

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Cappriccio espagnol, Op. 34
IV. Scena e canto gitano
V. Fandango asturiano

Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
and Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960)
“The Sound of Music” and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from The Sound of Music
Renée Fleming, soprano

Joni Mitchell (b. 1943)
“Blue” from Travelogue
Renée Fleming, soprano

Andrew Lippa (b. 1964)
“The Diva”
Renée Fleming, soprano

Honoring Music Director Laureate Grant Llewellyn

This evening we welcome back Grant Llewellyn in his new role as Music Director Laureate. We celebrate his defining accomplishments as our artistic leader, made during his extraordinary tenure of 16 seasons as the North Carolina Symphony’s Music Director. We honor his commitment to developing our music-making in communities large and small, and in concert halls, auditoriums, outdoor settings, and gymnasiums packed full with excited elementary school students. We celebrate Grant as our musical ambassador, who traveled from Murphy to Manteo sharing, with our musicians, the message that “music is for everyone.”

We are especially thrilled to present tonight’s concert, with soprano Renée Fleming joining Grant Llewellyn on the Woolner Stage of Meymandi Concert Hall to perform with your North Carolina Symphony.

Thank you and congratulations, Grant, for 16 spectacular seasons. We look forward to your future performances with us as Music Director Laureate.

With our gratitude,
The Boards of Trustees of the North Carolina Symphony
The Musicians and Staff of the North Carolina Symphony
Millions of elementary school students
Millions of devoted audience members

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