Boston's Discovery Ensemble 2012 - 2013 Season Opening Concert is Sunday, October 21

Oct. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- Boston, MA--The highly-regarded chamber orchestra Discovery Ensemble, conducted by Courtney Lewis, is pleased to announce a compelling four-concert series for the 2012 - 2013 season.  In addition, Classical New England has just announced that they will broadcast the orchestra's opening concert on October 21, live from Jordan Hall.  

Discovery Ensemble, comprised of 50 exceptional professional musicians in their twenties and early thirties from the Greater Boston area, has also just launched a new Facebook presence [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Discovery-Ensemble/401135973269493].  Updates will be posted throughout the season so that concert fans watch for special promotions and opportunities, media coverage and photos of recent events taking place in and around the concerts.

The first concert of the new season on Sunday, October 21 at 3:00 P.M. takes place at one of the most acoustically perfect halls in the country, Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory of Music.  The program will feature Mozart's Symphony No. 28, Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires featuring violinist Joshua Weilerstein, Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 and Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 4.  

Aptly titled "Reflected Glory," this inaugural concert is comprised, for the most part, of remarkable works in which the composer is looking over his shoulder at an illustrious predecessor.  Mozart’s Symphony No. 28 – far less known than it should be – is a distinct nod in the direction of Haydn, and is one of the wittiest of the Mozart symphonies.  Piazzolla had Vivaldi in mind when he wrote his Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, a richly evocative homage to the Italian master in a series of artful tangos.  The two movements of Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasilieras No. 9, a prelude followed by a fugue, transport the basic musical procedures of Bach to the Amazonian jungle.  And to close the concert, Bach himself – the multi-faceted and thrilling Fourth Orchestral Suite.  

A Musical Conversation hosted by Classical New England's Brian McCreath with conductor Courtney Lewis will take place prior to the concert, beginning at 2:00 P.M. on the Jordan Hall Stage.

In addition, the entire October 21 program will also be broadcast live, beginning at 3:00 P.M. on WGBH's Classical New England 99.5 Boston/NH, 89.7 HD2 in Boston, 96.3 on Beacon Hill, 89.5 in Nantucket and 88.7 in Providence, RI.  The broadcast will also be able to be streamed live from www.wgbh.org on iTunes, Windows Media and Real Player.  

Reserved seat tickets for this concert [October 21] are $40, $32 and $20 and go on sale at www.tix.com and at the Jordan Hall Box office at 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA 02115 on Friday, September 7.  Tickets for students and seniors with identification will be available at a discount of $10.00 in all price ranges. Go to www.discoveryensemble.com for more information.  Jordan Hall is wheelchair accessible.

This season's other three concerts will all take place at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge.  These concerts are on Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 3:00 P.M., Friday, February 1, 2013 at 8:00 P.M. and Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 3:00 P.M.  Sanders Theatre is located at 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; the venue is wheelchair accessible.  

Reserved seat tickets for the Sanders Theatre concerts will be available as of Friday, September 7 at $40, $32 and $20 at www.discoveryensemble.com, at the Harvard Box office website [www.boxoffice.harvard.edu] or by calling 617-496-2222.  Tickets for all Sanders Theatre concerts are available at the Harvard Box Office Booth, located at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue in the Holyoke Center Arcade.  Harvard Box Office hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 noon to 6:00 P.M.  The box office is closed on Mondays and some holidays.  Tickets for students and seniors with identification will be available at a discount of $10.00 in all price ranges.  Season subscriptions at $144.00, $115.00 and $72.00 for all four concerts are available NOW at www.DiscoveryEnsemble.com.

Concert Webpage:  http://www.sueauclairpromotions.com/Sue_Auclair_Promotion...

Discovery Ensemble 2012 - 2013 Season Program:
Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 3:00 PM; [Musical Conversation, 2:00 P.M.]
Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston
Mozart: Symphony No. 28
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires featuring violinist Joshua Weilerstein
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4.
Tickets:  $40, $32 and $20 at www.tix.com and www.discoveryensemble.com


Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 3:00 PM; [Musical Conversation, 2:00 P.M.]
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Bartok:  Divertimento

Salonen:  Five Images after Sappho, Karin Wolverton, soprano

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 2
Tickets:  $40, $32 and $20 at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu and www.discoveryensemble.com


Friday, February 1, 2013 at 8:00 P.M. [Musical Conversation, 7:00 P.M..]
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Rossini:  Overture to The Barber of Seville

Adams:  Chamber Symphony
Stravinsky:  Danses concertantes

Haydn:  Symphony No. 92, "Oxford"
Tickets:  $40, $32 and $20 at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu and www.discoveryensemble.com


Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 3:00 P.M.; [Musical Conversation, 2:00 P.M.]
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Schoenberg:  Second Chamber Symphony

Beethoven:  Piano Concerto No. 4, Michael McHale, piano

Schumann:  Symphony No. 4
Tickets:  $40, $32 and $20 at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu and www.discoveryensemble.com