Concerts
2007-2008 Season
Festival Amadeus
August 04, 2008
Festival Amadeus is designed to be the premier destination event for music lovers who want to enjoy the grandeur of northwestern Montana, while being treated to world-class music featuring internationally acclaimed artists. Join us for “Mountains By Day – Music By Night”
Amadeus – The Movie
August 04, 2008
The festival opens on the Big Screen with Milos Forman’s Academy Award-winning film about the music and life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Free Admission, great entertainment for everyone. Join the GSC and the Stumptown Historical Society of Whitefish for their annual picnic in Depot Park located just one block from the WF Performing Arts Center.
Festival Amadeus: Chamber Night 1, High Octane Octet
August 05, 2008
The festivals first Chamber night features the Bridger String Quartet from Bozeman opening with Mozart’s wonderful “Hunt Quartet.” GSC’s Glacier String Quartet performs Dvorak’s “American Quartet.” Both quartets join together in Felix Mendelssohn’s “Octet for Strings”, a buoyant work strongly influenced by Mozart.
Festival Amadeus: Chamber Night 2, Lyrical Elegance
August 06, 2008
Experience the clarity and dialogue of Mozart’s “Duo for Violin and Viola” with Paul Coletti. Pianist Roger Wright then joins Coletti for “Morpheus”, by Rebecca Clarke, followed by Wright and Setapen performing Beethoven’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano”. The trip joined by cellist, Lucas Poe-Kiser, concludes the evening with Joaquin Turina’s Spanish flavored “Piano Quartet in A minor.”
Festival Amadeus: Chamber Night 3, Sonic Rhapsody
August 07, 2008
Five brilliant performers come together for this final chamber concert. Brinna Brinkerhoff and Jeffrey Neufeld will open with Ravel’s inventive “Sonata for Violin and Piano”. Amy Pfrimmer sings “Fetes Galantes” by Debussy, followed by a set of “fish” songs by Franz Schubert. The concert concludes with Brahms’ sonically rich “Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano” with Jonas Van Dyke, Megan McClendon, and Jeffrey Neufeld.
Festival Amadeus: Gala Orchestra “Concertante”
August 08, 2008
Our “Gala” concert offers three diverse concerti for two soloists (concertante) and orchestra. Internationally acclaimed violist, Paul Coletti, and violist Sara Harball, are featured in Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 6,” a work of baroque brilliance. This is followed by a performance of a work by Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg. The evening concludes with Mozart’s greatest double concerto “Sinfonia Concertante” long considered one of the finest works for multiple soloists and orchestra.
Festival Amadeus: Festival Finale “Surprise”
August 09, 2008
Joining the Festival Amadeus Orchestra for our Festival Finale concert will be two wonderful soloists. Acclaimed soprano, Amy Pfrimmer, sings favorite arias from the world of Mozart’s finest operas. Pianist Roger Wright, performs Mozart’s popular “Fantasia in C minor” followed by the energetic and tuneful “Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major.” The “surprise” comes from the pen of Franz Joseph Haydn, one of his greatest “classical” symphonies, “Symphony No. 94 in G Major.”
Masterworks I: The Illusion
October 25, 2008
October 26, 2008
Our 08/09 musical Adventure opens with Glinka’s vibrant Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture, an opera concerning knights, witches, magic and enchanted gardens. Lalo’s darkly rapturous Concerto for Cello in d minor will be the perfect vehicle for Scott Kluksdahl’s expressive virtuosity. This 19th century romantic work features Lalo’s soaring, passionate cello lines punctuated by thunderous orchestral accents. The magical Sorcerers Apprentice, made famous in the movie Fantasia, was inspired by a popular folk legend retold by Goethe. The evocative rhythms of the skeletal Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens and the dark intensity of Mussorgsky’s Night On Bald Mountain complete this dynamic opening concert!
Masterworks II: The Remembering
November 15, 2008
November 16, 2008
Aaron Copland’s hopeful, celebratory Fanfare for the Common Man opens this program, followed by Samuel Barber’s solemnly lyrical Adagio for Strings, which sets a more reflective mood for The Remembering, a concert featuring works by American composers that explore the emotional interior landscapes of our people and culture. The wonderful soprano voice of Gina Lapka is featured in Fallen Heroes, a memorial work with contemporary resonance by James Stanard scored for soprano, chorus and orchestra and set to poetry from the American Civil War. The concert concludes with the melodically cinematic Symphony No. 2 “Romantic” by Howard Hanson, an important American work, rich in arching lyricism and sweeping orchestral colors.
Philip Aaberg’s “Montana Christmas”
December 06, 2008
Montana’s own Philip Aaberg celebrates Christmas and the Holiday Season with a wonderful solo concert full of original compositions and his intimate arrangements of our most beloved traditional pieces from his Christmas CD including Montana Sleighride, What Child Is This, I Saw Three Ships, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, and a host of others. Join Phil for this intimate musical portrait inspired by his love of the places and people of Montana. This will be rare opportunity to hear this fabulous pianist as he explores the many facets of his musical stylings.
Messiah and Magnificat
December 13, 2008
December 14, 2008
This inspiring program of sacred music by Bach and Handel will capture your contemplative imagination. Hear the Chamber Singers and soloists in Bach’s glorious Magnificat, with trumpets, winds, drums and strings perfectly balancing the fine polyphonic vocal writing and textural coloring of this master-piece. The second half of the program will feature Handel’s Messiah (Part 1) in Mozart’s setting for full classical orchestra, performed by the Glacier Chorale, soloists and the Glacier Symphony. Our evening of sacred music concludes with an audience sing-along reprise of the wonderful Hallelujah Chorus.
Fiddler on the Roof
January 23, 2009
January 24, 2009
January 25, 2009
The Glacier Symphony and Alpine Theatre Project team up for a special “On Stage!” version of Fiddler On The Roof, the great masterpiece with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock. Winner of numerous Tony Awards since its 1965 stage premier and an Academy Award for the 1971 movie, Fiddler is a beloved work, full of humanity, drama, comedy and GREAT MUSIC! The concert version will feature Alpine Theatre Project, invited actors and singers and the Glacier Symphony “On Stage!” You’ll not want to miss this exciting performance, sure to delight audiences of all ages.
Masterworks III: The Legend
February 21, 2009
February 22, 2009
Violinist David Halen, Concertmaster of the Saint Louis Symphony, returns to the Glacier Symphony offering his interpretation of Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D, the composer’s masterpiece of rhapsodic invention, technical abandon and earthy energy. Richard Wagner’s powerfully melodic overture to his early opera Rienzi concerning an Italian medieval hero will introduce the concert in grand style. Tchaikovsky’s driving Symphony No. 4 in f minor, a work full of structural depth, textural variety and Russian soulfulness, will add the final spark to complete The Legend program.
A Hint of Spring – Glacier Chamber Ensemble
March 06, 2009
March 07, 2009
March 08, 2009
Join the Glacier String Quartet and invited guest soloists from the Glacier Symphony for a casually intimate evening of chamber music featuring a variety of composers and musical genres. The Friday night concert will be presented by the Eureka Performing Arts Center and tickets will be available through their outlets.
Masterworks IV: The Wings of Song
March 21, 2009
March 22, 2009
The Glacier Chorale and Chamber Singers present “The Wings of Song”, a colorful exploration of choral music from the baroque, classical, romantic, modern, musical and film repertoire. Hear great works from the Russian a cappella tradition and large masterworks by Beethoven, Bruckner, Gounod, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Verdi. The weighty first half of the program is balanced nicely by lighter selections from the film scores of Empire of the Sun, Les Choristes, We Were Soldiers and Titanic. Rossini’s Cat Duet, Cole Porter’s Find Me a Primitive Man and Victor Herbert’s I Want to Be a Prima Donna complete this musical flight.
Masterworks V: The Dream
April 26, 2009
April 27, 2009
The Dream celebrates the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn with a performance of the wonderful incidental music to Shakespeare’s immortal A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Our performance will feature narrated scenes from the play that will introduce and set the scene to Mendelssohn’s great music, from the sparkling Overture to the jubilant Wedding March and the magical, fairy-inspired Scherzo. The concert will also feature concerto excerpts performed by invited young soloists, winners from the 2009 Montana Association of Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition. Prokofiev’s nuanced Classical Symphony, a modernist nod to the clarity of that musical style, will be the effervescent concert opener.
Masterworks VI: The Vision
May 16, 2009
May 17, 2009
Our spectacular season finale concert features Italian pianist Roberto Plano, recent finalist of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition. He will perform the enigmatic Piano Concerto No. 3 in c minor by Beethoven. Mr. Plano’s beautiful tone, sense of classical line and color will illuminate this masterwork. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in c# minor for large orchestra is a seminal work that charted new territory for this important composer. Mahler’s 5th Symphony stands as a monument to his large-scale musical imagination and conception, heavily influenced by Viennese elements but expanded and amplified to true Mahlerian proportions. A dynamic, passionate and muscular season finale!
