December 17th, 3:00 pm, Purchase Performing Arts Center
White Plains, NY — The Westchester Philharmonic’s 41st season continues on Sunday, December 17, 3:00 pm at the Purchase Performing Arts Center with “Clash of the Cellos!”
Everyone loves the sound of the cello, but when you put six of them together something other-worldly happens. The entire Philharmonic cello section gathers for great fun, a surprise or two, and the famed, goosebump-raising melody of Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5. The program will also feature music of The Beatles, Saint-Saëns, Borodin, Joni Mitchell, Piazzolla, and much more.
Principal cellist Eugene Moye will perform a solo prayer for peace, the traditional Catalan Song of the Birds, made famous by Pablo Casals. Cellists Sarah Carter, Roberta Cooper, Maureen Hynes, Eliana Mendoza, and Lanny Paykin will all be featured throughout the program, joined by mezzo-soprano Jeanne Ireland.
Artists’ photos can be found here.
All tickets are $45; half-price for young people ages 6 – 16.
For tickets and information go to westchesterphil.org, or order by phone by calling the PAC Box Office at 914-251-6200. The box office will open at noon on the day of the performance.
Concert at The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York.
About the Westchester Philharmonic
Now in its 41st season, the Westchester Philharmonic is the oldest, continuously running professional symphony orchestra and largest performing arts organization of any kind in Westchester County. The Philharmonic’s main stage concert series makes its home at the Purchase Performing Arts Center, with outdoor concerts, chamber concerts, children’s programs, and special events throughout the area, attracting savvy music-lovers from Rockland, Bergen, Fairfield, and Putnam counties, New York City, and beyond.
Renowned artists who have performed with the Phil include Joshua Bell, Julia Bullock, Barbara Cook, Jeremy Denk, Branford Marsalis, Midori, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelly O’Hara, Garrick Ohlsson, Itzhak Perlman, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Gil Shaham, Isaac Stern, and André Watts.
Among the many new works commissioned and premiered by the Westchester Philharmonic is Melinda Wagner’s Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. Newly commissioned works by award-winning composers Christopher Theofanidis, David Ludwig, and Jed Feuer debuted in 2014, 2016, and 2018, respectively.
The Westchester Philharmonic has a long history of supporting artists of diverse backgrounds. Many of the composers whose works have been commissioned or premiered with the Philharmonic come from diverse backgrounds and/or are women. Over the past ten seasons the Phil has engaged 30 conductors or guest soloists of African-American, Hispanic, and Asian backgrounds. Women conductors and composers have appeared in eight of the last ten seasons.
The orchestra is comprised of the finest professional free-lance musicians from around the greater metropolitan area, who also perform regularly with the New York City Ballet, Orchestra St. Luke’s, Orpheus, Mostly Mozart, and for many Broadway shows. Members of the Phil hold faculty positions at Juilliard, Mannes, Manhattan School of Music, Purchase Conservatory, Vassar and Bard Colleges, and at local public schools.
This season is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.This season is also made possible, in part, by ArtsWestchester with funds from Westchester County Government.
Contact:
Joshua Worby, (914) 682-3707
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