JoAnn’s Classical Christmas 2022
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYAn annual holiday favorite, Maestro Falletta celebrates the season with centuries of classical treasures.
Chopin & Shostakovich
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYMarcelo Lehninger, music director of the Grand Rapids Symphony, joins your BPO for an homage to master composers across the ages: Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Shostakovich's First Symphony, and Chopin's Second Piano Concerto performed by our guest conductor's mother, the extraordinary Sônia Goulart.
Mozart Masterpieces
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYOur annual celebration of Mozart's birthday features a double concerto, the Symphonie Concertante, with concertmaster Nikki Chooi and principal violist Caroline Gilbert. The "Paris" Symphony is one of Mozart's most famous with its grand and thrilling opening, and his Coronation Mass gained acclaim as the preferred music for royal and imperial coronations in eighteenth-century Europe.
Virtuoso Paul Huang Plays Bruch
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYGuest conductor Ankush Kumar Bahl, music director of the Omaha Symphony, leads your BPO in a tour de force. "Testament" depicts the story of Meera Bai, a celebrated saint-poet from 15th century India. Paul Huang performs Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, and Schumann's Second Symphony, with its uplifting tone, is seen as the composer's triumph over his own sadness.
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYA very special collaborative production of the last play William Shakespeare ever penned, The Tempest, with Jean Sibelius' imaginative and inventive score. Set on a remote and mysterious desert island, inspired by Elizabethan reports of the West Indies in the 16th century and imbued with a spirit of magic and superstition, The Tempest is Shakespeare's tumultuous play of betrayal, love, and forgiveness.
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYA very special collaborative production of the last play William Shakespeare ever penned, The Tempest, with Jean Sibelius' imaginative and inventive score. Set on a remote and mysterious desert island, inspired by Elizabethan reports of the West Indies in the 16th century and imbued with a spirit of magic and superstition, The Tempest is Shakespeare's tumultuous play of betrayal, love, and forgiveness.
Beethoven’s Eighth
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYJosep Caballé-Domenech, music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, conducts your BPO and pianist Michelle Cann performing Price's exquisite Piano Concerto, along with the whimsical Burleske by Richard Strauss. Beethoven's short and spirited Eighth Symphony, and the frenzied and free-flowing Fate Now Conquers inspired by Beethoven, round out this brilliant program.
Beethoven’s Eighth
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYJosep Caballé-Domenech, music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, conducts your BPO and pianist Michelle Cann performing Price's exquisite Piano Concerto, along with the whimsical Burleske by Richard Strauss. Beethoven's short and spirited Eighth Symphony, and the frenzied and free-flowing Fate Now Conquers inspired by Beethoven, round out this brilliant program.
Mendelssohn’s Violin
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYDynamic violinist Sandy Cameron returns to perform one of the most beloved of all concertos, the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, brimming with lyrical and technically-exciting passages. In Dances of Galánta, Kodály takes his inspiration from the thrilling folk music of Hungarian Gypsy bands, and Dvořák's dramatic and austere Seventh Symphony is fired by his Bohemian spirit.
Mendelssohn’s Violin
Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NYDynamic violinist Sandy Cameron returns to perform one of the most beloved of all concertos, the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, brimming with lyrical and technically-exciting passages. In Dances of Galánta, Kodály takes his inspiration from the thrilling folk music of Hungarian Gypsy bands, and Dvořák's dramatic and austere Seventh Symphony is fired by his Bohemian spirit.