ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Author" content="Ting and Randy Vogel"> <meta name="Generator" content="PSPad"> <title>September 2004</title> <link href="../funfolks.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <p>Kent Nagano returns to Berkeley to kick off the 2004-05 season with the highly anticipated US premiere of Unsuk Chin's spectacular <i>Violin Concerto</i>, Beethoven's <i>Fifth Symphony</i>, and more...</p> <p>Monday, September 13, 2004, 8 p.m., Zellerbach Hall</p><br /> <ul>PROGRAM</ul> <li>J.S. Bach (orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg): <i>Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, heiliger Geist</i></li> <li>George Benjamin: <i>Viola Viola</i><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ellen Ruth Rose & Kurt Rohde, violas</li> <li>Unsuk Chin: <i>Violin Concerto</i> <strong>(U.S. Premiere)</strong><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Viviane Hagner, violin</li> <li>Ludwig van Beethoven: <i>Symphony No. 5 in C minor</i></li> <p>Unsuk Chin made her mark on the symphonic word when her <i>Violin Concerto</i> won the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for composition in 2004, following its world premiere in 2002 with the Deutches Symphonie Orchester - Berlin (where it received eight curtain calls!). Soloist Viviane Hagner performed the world premiere and now joins us in Berkeley for the U.S. premiere.</p> <p>The virtuosic program continues with the music of George Benjamin. Soloists Ellen Ruth Rose and Kurt Rohde, who recently performed together at the 2004 Ojai Music Festival, will present Benjamin's <i>Viola Viola</i>, a work for two solo violas.</p> <p>The evening commences with one of Schoenberg's most personal and important orchestrations of another composer's work: Bach's chorale prelude <i>Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, heiliger Geist</i>, and closes with a continuation of Maestro Nagano's presentation of the recent Urtext editions of Beethoven's symphonies - arguably the most recognized one of all - the <i>Fifth Symphony</i>.</p> </body>