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30. May 2013 · Comments Off on TQOD · Categories: TQOD

I want to start a band with a percussion section of pots and pans. We’d be unique. Perhaps an oboe and a french horn to fill out the melody.

30. May 2013 · Comments Off on Friday … · Categories: Concert Announcements

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The Program
Pianist extraordinaire André Watts closes the season with MacDowell’s second piano concerto, and Leonard Slatkin conducts a Detroit-inspired world premiere by Missy Mazzoli and Tchaikovsky’s triumphant fourth symphony.

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Leonard Slatkin conductor
André Watts piano

BACH Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air on the G String
MISSY MAZZOLI River Rouge Transfiguration
(world premiere and Lebenbom Award winner*)
MACDOWELL Piano Concerto No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

* Missy Mazzoli is the winner of the Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers, granted annually to a living woman composer, of any age or nationality, in the spirit of recognizing and supporting the creation of new orchestral works by women. The award is inspired by the late Elaine Lebenbom, a composer, teacher, poet, artist, lecturer, and resident of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.