{"id":4474,"date":"2012-05-19T17:12:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2012-05-19T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T16:12:58","slug":"new-sounds-%e2%80%93-uo-launches-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/05\/new-sounds-%e2%80%93-uo-launches-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sounds \u2013 UO Launches New Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ulster Orchestra, Northern Ireland\u2019s only professional symphony orchestra, launched its 2012-2013 Season (17 May), a nine-month programme that sees the music of Beethoven, Verdi and Wagner rub shoulders with The Snowman and music from stage and screen.<\/h2>\n
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Professor Sir George Bain, Chairman of the Ulster Orchestra, heralds the start of the Orchestra\u2019s new 2012-2013 Season which he and Principal Conductor JoAnn Falletta launched yesterday at the Ulster Hall in Belfast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The UO\u2019s 47th Season includes the work of 30 composers across 40 main season and lunchtime concerts that will involve over 30 soloists, 20 conductors and two choirs – the Derry-based Codetta and Belfast Philharmonic Choir and, as Ulster Orchestra\u2019s Chairman Professor Sir George Bain says, \u201c63 of the finest musicians you will find anywhere in these islands\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an eclectic mix of popular, familiar, challenging, and inspiring music that we hope will appeal not only to our subscribers, but to people who come occasionally, or haven\u2019t yet enjoyed a symphony orchestra in full flow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The 2012-2013 Season will honour the centenary of Benjamin Britten\u2019s birth and bicentenaries of Wagner and Verdi\u2019s. The Season also includes two special Burns Night concerts and popular classics like Beethoven\u2019s Ode to Joy, Holst\u2019s The Planets and Handel\u2019s Messiah; also a concert of Family Film Favourites, music from hit West End shows and a Wild Wild West film night.<\/p>\n

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Strictly dancers Camilla Dallerup and Ian Waite make a welcome return for the traditional New Year Viennese concerts and families can also enjoy a special 30th anniversary showing this Christmas of The Snowman with live orchestral accompaniment.<\/p>\n

Rois\u00edn McDonough, Chief Executive of the Arts Council, the Ulster Orchestra\u2019s principal funder, congratulated the Orchestra \u201cfor providing us once more with a spectacular season of inspiring symphony music. The programme shows how orchestral music is an essential ingredient in the rich and diverse tapestry of delights that the arts bring to local audiences and to our growing numbers of cultural visitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

In thanking all those who support and fund the Orchestra, Sir George said that the Arts Council invests a significant portion of its funding for music in the Orchestra and that was a huge responsibility for them and the Board of the Ulster Orchestra as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank the Arts Council for its support; its continued recognition that a symphony orchestra is a crucial part of cultural life here, and the value it places on having a full-time professional symphony orchestra for Northern Ireland,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will need to do more with less, as these are tough times for everyone, but we welcome the Arts Council\u2019s continued faith in us. We see ourselves as part of the community and are committed to bringing classical music to more people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Principal Conductor JoAnn Falletta said she is also looking forward to the new Season and working with the musicians, many of whom, like her, come from overseas. She also said that she is doing her bit to promote Northern Ireland by exporting the music of its finest composers back to her native United States.<\/p>\n

The acclaimed New York conductor said, \u201cComing to Belfast has opened up a whole new world to me, especially the fantastic music of local Irish composers: composers such as Sir Hamilton Harty, Howard Ferguson and John Ernest Moeran. I want people in the US to enjoy these great treasures.\u201d
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As Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony orchestras, she will conduct Harty\u2019s Irish Symphony in Buffalo in the autumn of 2013 and Moeran\u2019s Cello Concerto in Virginia during its 2013-2014 Season. She also has plans to conduct Howard Ferguson\u2019s Piano Concerto in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople in the US have not heard these composers yet, but are excited about hearing the sound of Northern Ireland. Many of our audience members tell me how much they want to visit Belfast to hear the Ulster Orchestra,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

As JoAnn takes local classical music to American audiences, she is pleased that the Ulster Orchestra\u2019s new Season includes a number of her classical music compatriots, composers such as John Adams, Aaron Jay Kernis and the great George Gershwin.<\/p>\n

The Ulster Orchestra\u2019s new Season opens on 14 September 2012. Ten days earlier, at the Season taster concert \u2018Your Starter for 10!\u2019 concertgoers can get a taste of what the Season has in store for just \u00a310.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the 2012-2013 Season go on sale on 18 July and range from \u00a36-\u00a328 and are available from ulsterorchestra.com or 028 9023 9955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ulster Orchestra, Northern Ireland\u2019s only professional symphony orchestra, launched its 2012-2013 Season (17 May), a nine-month programme that sees the music of Beethoven, Verdi and Wagner rub shoulders with The Snowman and music from stage and screen. The UO\u2019s 47th Season includes the work of 30 composers across 40 main season and lunchtime concerts … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}