Season 51 | 2016-2017

Prince George’s Philharmonic

RITA SLOAN

JERRY GROSSMAN

ADRIENNE IVEY

MICHAEL MERMAGEN

DAVID PERRY

BRIAN GANZ

A new season of music

Saturday, October 8, 2016 | 8:00 PMBowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MDRichard Rosenberg, conductor candidate; Rita Sloan, piano

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 26

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37

Dvor̆ák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70

Saturday, November 19, 2016 | 8:00 PMBowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MDStephen Czarkowski, conductor candidate; Jerry Grossman, cello

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a

Bloch: “Schelomo”: Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

Saturday, February 11, 2017 | 8:00 PMNorthwestern High School, Hyattsville, MDBrian Stone, conductor candidate Adrienne Ivey, soprano; Northwestern High School Choir

Borodin: Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor (Side-by-Side)

Berlioz: D’Amour l’ardente flamme from La damnation de Faust

Mendelssohn: Infelice, Op. 94

Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G Major, D. 167

Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suites 1 and 2

Saturday, March 25, 2017 | 8:00 PMBowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MDJesus Manuel Berard, conductor candidate; David Perry, violin; Michael Mermagen, cello

Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5

Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102

Sunday, May 14, 2017 | 3:00 PMDekelboum Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,

College Park, MDAnna Binneweg, conductor candidate; Brian Ganz, piano

Tchaikovsky: Selections from Swan Lake

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466

Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Prince George’s Philharmonic

Prince George’s Philharmonic

Season 51 | 2016-2017

Philharmonic Board President Remembers Music Director Charles Ellis as the Prince George’s Philharmonic Moves Forward

E xcitement filled the air a year ago, at the

opening night of the Prince George’s

Philharmonic’s 50th concert season! Maestro

Charles Ellis told the audience that this 50th season

(2015-16) also marked his 15th anniversary as the

Philharmonic’s Music Director, and that he had never

been more excited about the programs that he had

planned. So the celebratory season began - with the

planned six performances, two special recitals, the

return of the orchestra’s previous conductors, and

honors for the longest performing players and staff.

But after the first two concerts, on New Year’s Day 2016, Charles Ellis passed

away unexpectedly, leaving the orchestral community in shock. Through sadness

and tears, the orchestra banded together under Maestro Ellis’s chosen assistant,

Blair Skinner, determined to finish the 50th season as Ellis had planned it.

At the beginning of the final concert of the season, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2,

the “Resurrection,” I could almost hear Chuck’s voice saying “I have never been

more excited about our planned programs.” And what an exciting concert that

was! With the Clarice Smith concert hall nearly filled, and the joyous reception

that followed, I felt that Chuck heard us and joined in the celebration! I think that

all of us felt his presence!

Now we go on to begin our 51st season, planned a full year ago by Charles

Ellis. It will be a different and very special season, for each of our concerts

will be conducted by a candidate to fill the position of Music Director of the

Philharmonic. It will include several of the great monuments of orchestral music,

such as the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto

No. 3, the Schubert Mass in G Major, and the gorgeous Adagietto from Mahler’s

Symphony No. 5; and it will feature outstanding soloists, including previous

favorites, Rita Sloan and Brian Ganz. It will be a challenging, exciting, even

suspenseful season, and, at the end of it, we will choose our next Music Director.

Please join us for this exciting new season of great music!

Mary Ann White, PresidentBoard of Directors

President's Letter

Educational OutreachThe Anne Gentry Educational Outreach Program

provides free music instruction to deserving Prince

George's County public school students who would

otherwise be unable to engage in such instruction.

Students in the Anne Gentry Educational Outreach

Program, also known as “Symphony Kids,” receive

one-on-one music lessons with a qualified teacher

during the school year and free tickets for their

families to attend all Philharmonic concerts. They

also perform in an annual recital.

In addition, our Educational Outreach Program offers an annual

side-by-side for selected students and occasional masterclasses led by

out guest artists. Age 18 and under are admitted free (ticket required)

to all regular concerts of the Philharmonic.

For more information contact Kevin Gillis, 301-446-3245.

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