Season Premiere

October 9 & 10, 2010

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Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 73 in D Major “La chasse”*

Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major* With Guest Artist Kelly Zuercher (Listen)

Gabriel Fauré- Elégie for Cello and Orchestra, Featuring Ramona McConkie, COS Principal Cellist

Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 8 in F Major, op. 93

The 27th season of the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs opens in good humor with Haydn’s Symphony No. 73 “The Hunt,” one of his most joyous and witty works. Kelly Zuercher joins the Chamber Orchestra to revisit the Ravel Piano Concerto, a jazz-influenced piece, that shaped Zuercher’s early career. Added to the program, COS Principal Cellist, Ramona McConkie playing Fauré’s Elégie for Cello and Orchestra. Rounding out the festivities is Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony—an unlikely comic symphony written by the great composer just before changing the world of music with his Ninth Symphony. Saturday and Sunday Preconcert Lectures by Herbert Beattie. (Program Notes)

Kelly Zuercher - Guest Artist