This preview has been provided by The North Carolina Symphony.
The North Carolina Symphony is beginning its 2014/15 Southern Pines/Moore County season on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. with “At the Oscars,” a concert that will feature some of the greatest music ever scored for Oscar-winning films.
Music in the movies has been around since the days of the silent pictures, and the program for “At the Oscars,” led by Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, features music that is great for kids and families in a trip down memory lane.
The Southern Pines audience will thrill to familiar sounds including Richard Strauss’ Fanfare from Also sprach Zarathustra (better known as the theme from the film 2001), Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story, Jerry Goldsmith’s The New Enterprise from Star Trek, the Motion Picture, and the Shark Theme from Jaws, Yoda’s Theme from the Star Wars Suite, and Adventures on Earth from E.T., all from the prolific pen of the great John Williams.
The North Carolina Symphony will perform seven concerts in Southern Pines during its 2014-15 Southern Pines/Moore County season that range from movie magic to holiday sounds to classical favorites. All performances take place in Pinecrest High School’s Lee Auditorium in Southern Pines. Subscriptions for the 2014-15 series are still available. A popular subscription option is “MyMix,” which emphasizes flexibility for patrons to choose concerts that fit their schedules.
Other dates on the Southern Pines/Moore Country Series:
Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m., Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn will conduct Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. The concert will also feature Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31, with tenor Nicholas Phan and Symphony Principal Horn Rebekah Daley, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, featuring Symphony Principal Viola Samuel Gold, and Symphony Associate Principal Viola David Marschall.
Holiday magic is in store with the North Carolina Symphony’s performance of Handel’s Messiah on Sunday Dec. 7, featuring conductor Douglas Boyd, and the North Carolina Master Chorale. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
Dvořák’s New World Symphony on Jan. 22, 2015, features guest conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto. The program, which begins at 8 p.m., will also feature Falla’s “The Three-Cornered Hat.”
Grant Llewellyn will lead the North Carolina Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica,” on March 12, 2015, at 8 p.m. The master composer wrote the work in 1804, originally as a tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte. The program also features Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude and Brahms’ Shicksalslied.
On April 9, 2015, at 8 p.m., Michael Francis will lead the North Carolina Symphony in Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique, along with Messiaen’s Les offrandes oubliées, and Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5, featuring North Carolina Symphony Concertmaster Brian Reagin.
The season finale will take place on May 2, 2015, at 8 p.m., with Grant Llewellyn and the Symphony performing Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, along with Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Essay No. 2, as well as Three Dance Episodes from Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town.
Tickets, Location, and Partners
Subscriptions to the North Carolina Symphony’s 2014-15 Southern Pines/Moore County series are available at www.ncsymphony.org/subscriptions. To purchase tickets, visit the North Carolina Symphony website at www.ncsymphony.org or call the Symphony Box Office at 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724. Tickets are also available at the Campbell House, 482 East Connecticut Avenue, Southern Pines, N.C., 28387. Lee Auditorium is located on the campus of Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines, NC 28387.
Partners for the 2014/15 Southern Pines/Moore County series include First Bank, Southern Prime Steakhouse, and St. Joseph of the Pines.
About the North Carolina Symphony
Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony gives more than 200 performances annually to adults and school children in more than 50 North Carolina counties. The North Carolina Symphony has held a concert series in Moore County since the 1950s, and works with a committed group of volunteers in its Moore County Chapter to present classical and education concerts. An entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 66 professional musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, and Associate Conductor David Glover.
Headquartered in downtown Raleigh’s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington — as well as individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year — and conducts one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.