# Berkeley Symphony Orchestra at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, Thursday, March 28, 2013

[Berkeley Symphony Orchestra](http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/)  
2013-03-28
Zellerbach Hall Auditorium  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Thursday, March 28, 2013

## ♪♫ Set One ♫♪

[7:58 PM rolling; 8:05 lights down; W3elcome and deeication by RM; Introduction by JC and SS; 8:13 ready to go!]

### Steven Stucky: The Stars and the Roses (World Premiere Commission)(ca. 13 min)

1. Happiness  
2. the Sun  
3. the Bird Kingdom  
[set ends 8:27 PM... applause, thanks and announcements until fadeout]

### ♪ Encore ♪

1. //Una Furtiva Lagrima// (from Act II, Scene III of  //L'elisir d'amore// by Gaetano Donizetti)  
[set ends 8:35 PM]


## ♪♫ Set Two ♫♪

[9:00 PM lights down, musicians onstage; Introduction by ?]

### Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, Romantic (1878/80)(ca. 70 min)

1. Allegro molto moderato  
2. Andante quasi allegretto  
3. Scherzo - Trio  
4. Finale  
[set ends 10:04 PM]


## ♀♂ the Performers ♂♀
* Joana Carneiro: conductor, music director;  
* [Noah Stewart](http://www.noahofficial.com/): tenor vox;
* (unidentified members of the BSO)

## ☺ Notes ☺
With no disrespect to BSO or the commissioners of tonight's new work, to me, Stucky's triptych came off as sort of trite ... inoffensive orchestral swells and warbles as wallpaper to small little poems. By contrast, the Donizetti encore was powerful, emotional and involving... it made me want to go hear Noah sing again, despite the guaranteed markup involved in attending opera.

Similarly, my experience of the Bruckner piece was that it offered too much of a good-but-not-great thing. There were plenty of neat ideas, but some judicious editing could make for a more engaging, less tiresome presentation. It was one of those works that seemed like it lasted for hours and hours ...

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