April Concert - Oakland East Bay Symphony

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="6" WIDTH="528" STYLE="border-collapse: collapse" BGCOLOR="#FFFFDD"> <TR STYLE="height:27.0pt"> <TD STYLE="width:291.85pt;background:#EEE9CC;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:27.0pt" BGCOLOR="EEE9CC" WIDTH="15"> </TD> <TD STYLE="width:291.85pt;background:#EEE9CC;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:27.0pt" BGCOLOR="EEE9CC" WIDTH="402"> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" ALIGN="LEFT" STYLE="text-align:left"><FONT SIZE="+1"><FONT SIZE="2"><B><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial;color:navy"><FONT COLOR="#000000">2008-09 Season:</FONT></SPAN></B><B><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial"> <A HREF="nov.htm" TARGET="_top">Nov</A> | <A HREF="jan.html" TARGET="_top">Jan</A> | <A HREF="feb.htm" TARGET="_top">Feb</A> | <A HREF="mar.htm" TARGET="_top">Mar</A> | Apr | <A HREF="may.htm" TARGET="_top">May</A></SPAN></B></FONT></FONT></P> </TD> <TD STYLE="width:185.85pt;background:#EEE9CC;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:27.0pt" BGCOLOR="EEE9CC" WIDTH="182" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"><A HREF="http://www.patronmail.com/pmailweb/PatronSetup?oid=16" TARGET="_blank">Sign up for our <I><B>E-newsletter</B></I></A></FONT></TD> </TR> <TR STYLE="height:27.0pt" VALIGN="TOP"> <TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="width:291.85pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:27.0pt" ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="15"> </TD> <TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="width:291.85pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:27.0pt" ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="402"><FONT SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><FONT SIZE="-1"><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><SPAN STYLE="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:navy"><BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial;color:navy"> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="michael1.htm"></A></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="4"><B></B><FONT SIZE="+1">It's Spring - Celebrate!<BR>April 17, 2009</FONT></FONT></SPAN><B><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial;color:navy"><BR> </SPAN></B><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial;color:navy"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Friday, 8:00pm, Paramount Theatre, Oakland<BR><A HREF="michael.htm" TARGET="_top">Michael Morgan, <I>Conductor</I></A><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/purchase_tickets_g.gif" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="29" BORDER="0" USEMAP="#map3"> <MAP NAME="map3"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="6,4,97,27" HREF="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C00408F9689340C?artistid=806636&majorcatid=1" ALT="April 17, 2009 - It's Spring, Celebrate! " TARGET="_top"> </MAP><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR>7pm: Pre-concert speaker <A HREF="bailey.htm" TARGET="_top">John Kendall Bailey</A><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Program<BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="5" BORDER="0"><BR></B><FONT SIZE="-2"><B>Please note program change:</B> <BR><I>Petrouchka</I> by Igor Stravinsky will be performed instead of <I><BR>Rite of Spring</I>, which had been previously announced.</FONT><B><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:red"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B><BR>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov <BR></B>Russian Easter Overture (1888) </FONT><B><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR></B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Igor Stravinsky <BR></B>Petrouchka (1947 version)</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B> <BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR>Mark Lanz Weiser<BR></B>Four Scenes from "The Story of Tocatta & Fugue"</FONT><B><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"></B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><BR><B>Ludwig van Beethoven</B> <BR>Piano Concerto No. 1 (1798) <BR>with Sara Buechner, <I>piano</I> <B></B></FONT><B><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="380" HEIGHT="5" BORDER="0"></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="-1"><SPAN STYLE="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:red"><B> <MAP NAME="map2"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="11,4,101,29" HREF="http://www.patronmail.com/pmailweb/PatronSetup?oid=16" TARGET="_blank"> </MAP> </B></SPAN><FONT FACE="Arial">Our April concert pairs two composers who were revolutionaries in their time, and who changed the course of music forever. <BR><BR>Beethoven, a composer who pushed the boundaries of conventional composition and had a profound impact on the future of music, infused his works with unprecedented drama and passion. International award-winning pianist Sara Buechner, who has appeared as soloist with many of America's leading orchestras (among them the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia, Cleveland and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras), will join OEBS for a performance of Beethoven's grand Piano Concerto No. 1.<BR> <BR>Just over a century after Beethoven wrote his piano concerto, Stravinsky became the darling of Paris with his brilliant, controversial ballet scores. <I>Petrouchka</I>, based on the immortal Russian puppet character that comes to life, used polytonality and rapidly changing rhythms in a new way that came as a revelation to young European composers and influenced the course of musical composition.<BR><BR>We'll start the concert with Rimsky-Korsakov's <I>Russian Easter Overture</I>, a work bursting with a spirit of primitive energy no less dazzling than the carnival scenes in <I>Petrouchka</I>. <BR></FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="182" ALIGN="RIGHT"><IMG SRC="../image/200809/sarah-breuchner.JPG" ALT="Sara Breuchner" ALIGN="TOP" BORDER="0" WIDTH="183" HEIGHT="180"><BR><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> Buechner</FONT><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="185" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/200809/marklanzweiser.JPG" ALT="Mark Lanz Weiser" ALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="112" BORDER="0"><BR><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">Weiser</FONT><BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"></FONT><BR><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">Concert Sponsored in part by<BR><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/logos/portofoakland.jpg" ALT="Port of Oakland" ALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="129" HEIGHT="42" BORDER="0" USEMAP="#map1"><IMG SRC="../image/homepage/10x10.JPG" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="10" BORDER="0"> <MAP NAME="map1"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="10,3,124,40" HREF="http://www.portofoakland.com/" ALT="Port of Oakland" TARGET="_blank"> </MAP></FONT><BR><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <MAP NAME="map5"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="1,3,58,53" HREF="http://www.wellsfargo.com" ALT="Wells Fargo" TARGET="_top"> </MAP></FONT></TD> </TR> <TR STYLE="height:27.0pt"> <TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="width:291.85pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:27.0pt" ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="15"></TD> <TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="width:291.85pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:27.0pt" ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="402"> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-bottom:12.0pt" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>"Buechner has it all - intelligence, integrity, and all-encompassing technical prowess." </I><BR>~New York Times <BR><I>"Buechner's performance had a beauty that might have taken even Mozart's breath away."</I> <BR>~Washington Post </FONT><FONT SIZE="-1"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"></FONT><BR></FONT></P></TD> <TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="182" ALIGN="LEFT"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY>