Off The Calendar

Friday, January 4, 2013, at 8:00 p.m.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ordway Center
Saint Paul

Edo de Waart, Conductor
Eric Owens, Bass

Mozart: Serenade No. 12
Adams: The Wound Dresser
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

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Friday, January 11, 2013, at 8:00 p.m.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ordway Center
Saint Paul

Edo de Waart, Conductor
Peter Serkin, Piano

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (“Fingal’s Cave”) Overture
Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 2
Mozart: Symphony No. 29
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19

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Friday, January 18, 2013, at 8:00 p.m.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ordway Center
Saint Paul

Edo de Waart, Conductor

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
Weill: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

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Friday, January 25, 2013, at 8:00 p.m.

Minnesota Orchestra
Convention Center Auditorium
Minneapolis

Osmo Vanska, Conductor
Roberto Diaz, Viola

Janacek: Suite From “The Cunning Little Vixen”
Bartok: Viola Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7

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Sunday, January 27, 2013, at 3:00 p.m.

Minnesota Concert Opera
The Cowles Center
Minneapolis

Craig Fields, Conductor

Verdi: Il Trovatore

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Today the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra cancelled concerts through the first week of February.

The 2012-2013 SPCO season, on paper, was an exceptional one. Andrew and I had penciled in twelve concerts this season as holding some interest for us, three in January alone. The January concerts in which we had an interest are now kaput.

The January concerts we had earmarked were of interest not because of conductor Edo de Waart, hardly an important figure, but because of the music.

With reference to the Minnesota Orchestra concert we have removed from our calendar, the Janacek-Bartok-Dvorak program was one of only six Minnesota Orchestra programs Andrew and I had noted for the entire 2012-2013 season. Although the Minnesota Orchestra has yet to cancel January concerts, Andrew and I shall be in Paris the week of the Janacek-Bartok-Dvorak program—so that concert is now off our list, too.

Minnesota Concert Opera’s “Il Trovatore” will also be presented while we are in Paris, so we shall have to miss “Il Trovatore” as well—not that I am complaining.