BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//artsboston.org//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of artsboston.org X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130619T061443CEST-26812n2TFW@artsboston.org DTSTAMP:20130619T041443Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Discovery Ensemble Presents Bach Meets the Neoclass icists: Music of Bach\, Bartók\, Stravinsky and Prokofiev Sunday\, Januar y 17 at 3 PM Sanders Theatre Harvard Square\, Cambridge\nEvent Url: http:/ /www.artsboston.org/event/detail/54221/Discovery_Ensemble_Presents_Bach_Me ets_the_Neoclassicists_Music_of_Bach_Bartok_Stravinsky_and_Prokofiev_Sunda y_January_17_at_3_PM_Sanders_Theatre_Harvard_Square_Cambridge\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-01-17\nEvent Date End: 2010-01-17\n\nCambridge\, MA--Discovery Ensemble will take center stage with &ldquo\;Bach Meets the Neoclassicist s: Music of Bach\, Bartó\;k\, Stravinsky and Prokofiev&rdquo\; on S unday\, January 17 at 3:00 P.M. at Sanders Theatre\, 45 Quincy Street\, ne ar Harvard Square in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. Reserved-seat tickets pri ced at $35.00 [Golden Circle]\, $28.00 and $20.00 go on sale on Friday\, D ecember 18 on line at www.discoveryensemble.com or by calling: 617-496-22 22. Tickets will also be available at the Harvard Box Office Booth\, loca ted at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue in the Holyoke Center Arcade. Harvard Bo x Office hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 noon to 6:00 P.M. Th e box office is closed on Mondays and some holidays. Tickets for students and seniors with identification will be available at a discount of $10.00 in all price ranges. Sanders Theatre is wheelchair accessible.\nCourtney Lewis\, the amazing 25-year-old conductor and founder of Discovery Ensemb le\, combines exacting standards with true vision and interpretative depth \, as well as an infectious joy in the sheer act of making music. On more than one occasion he has been compared\, by those whose musical memories go back to the early 1960s\, to the young Carlos Kleiber. Lewis has molde d Discovery Ensemble into a finely tuned\, nuanced and virtuosic orchestra capable of switching from Bach to Beethoven to Stravinsky with complete s tylistic assurance and a standard of playing that rivals the great Europea n chamber orchestras. In May 2009\, Osmo Vä\;nskä\; appointed him Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra\, so Lewis now divides his time between Minneapolis and Boston.\nAbout the Program:\nThe upcoming Ja nuary 17 concert program at Sanders will feature Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1068\, Stravinsky Apollo\, Bartó\;k Six Songs for Children's Chorus and Prokofiev Symphony No. 1\, 'Classical.' This divers e program will also feature the Boston City Singers under the Artistic Dir ection of Jane Money.\nIn each of the four remarkable works on this progra m of Discovery Ensemble one hears the composer making a sort of musical co mmentary on music that has made a deep impact on his own musical style.\nI n his Third Orchestral Suite Bach clearly had certain French models in min d\, but the he transmuted the formulas of the French overture into somethi ng uniquely his own. The second movement\, the famous &ldquo\;Air on the G String\,&rdquo\; although absolutely dripping with French Baroque graces \, could have been written by no one except Bach! Stravinsky's Apollo\, f or string orchestra\, is one of the great neo-classical masterpieces that he wrote in the 1920s. This amazing work embraces and transforms a whole catalog of previous musical styles\, from the Italian concerto grosso to 1 9th century French ballet music\, all of it lifted to a plane of ineffable serenity and rich detail.\nBartok's Six Songs for Chorus and Orchestra ha ve deep roots in Hungarian folk music. They are based on actual folksong texts\, but the music is entirely original\, although at every turn Bartok exploits his incomparable understanding of Hungarian folk idioms. For th e performance of this rarely heard Bartok work Discovery Ensemble is parti cularly happy to be able to collaborate with the marvelous Dorchester-base d children's chorus Boston City Singers.\nClosing the concert is Prokofiev 's lithe and balletic &ldquo\;Classical&rdquo\; Symphony\, a sparkling\, v irtuosic tour de force for the orchestra that embraces the classicism of t he title and also makes a nod in the direction of the French Baroque in it s famous Gavotte. It's a piece that audiences invariably find exhilaratin g and irresistible.\nAbout Discovery Ensemble\nDiscovery Ensemble is an ex uberantly youthful chamber orchestra founded in 2008 and made up of 40 exc eptional young professional musicians in their twenties from the greater B oston area. In its concerts\, Discovery Ensemble presents an eclectic cro ss section of masterworks &ndash\; some familiar\, some unfamiliar &ndash\ ; in performances that are impassioned\, searching and at the highest leve l of technical accomplishment.\nUnseen by the general pubic is the other s ide of Discovery Ensemble's work -- an extensive program of workshops in B oston public schools and children's concerts\, all of which especially tar get areas that are underserved by existing musical institutions. The targ et area for these workshops for the past two years has been the community of Dorchester\, Massachusetts where Discovery Ensemble has given interacti ve workshops in many area schools &ndash\; bringing the music of Ligeti\, Copland and Stravinsky into the children's intimate and familiar surroundi ngs. These programs have had an astonishing impact! Four times a year\, in conjunction with each series of school workshops there are also concert s for children in the historic Strand Theatre in the Uphams Corner section of Dorchester. Over one thousand school children are bused to each of th ese morning concerts\, where they experience great music played with great passion\, and explained to them in a particularly dynamic and child-frien dly manner. A six minute video about the outreach work of Discovery Ensem ble can be seen on the Discovery Ensemble website: http://www.discoveryen semble.com.\n\nStart time: 3:00 PM DTSTART:20100117T000000 DTEND:20100117T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Discovery Ensemble Presents Bach Meets the Neoclassicists: Music of Bach\, Bartók\, Stravinsky and Prokofiev Sunday\, January 17 at 3 PM San ders Theatre Harvard Square\, Cambridge TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR