SAN DIEGO–One of the most rewarding times in being involved with a performing arts organization is when choices have to be made in what will be programmed and presented to the public.
In the case of musical groups, at any level of professionalism, many factors have to be carefully weighed, such as what the public will support and attend, the upholding of musical integrity for the preservation of the art form, and music that is appealing and challenging to the musicians who will play it. After all, they are the ones who will produce the sounds we will hopefully enjoy.
But, thank goodness, in classical music the choices are many. The challenge is to balance each program with contrasting material of the familiar and lesser known, or to choose a theme which runs through the concert, or even through an entire season.
With these thoughts in mind, we welcome you to attend the concerts of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra. The 70-piece ensemble has earned a reputation for innovative programming, outstanding internationally acclaimed soloists, and a sense of intimacy created between performers and audiences.
These are the dates and concerts. Sunday, November 13, 2011, 3:00 p.m. and Tuesday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.: Tchaikovsky’s melodious Symphony No. 2, Bruch’s Violin Concerto in G Minor, with guest soloist the respected San Diego violinist Hernan Constantino, and a work from the Baroque Era, Couperin’s Overture and Allegro. Both performances will be at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, 6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd., San Diego.
January 29, 30, and 31: Three all-Beethoven programs in consecutive days and nights. Featured soloist will be the distinguished pianist Daniel Wnukovsky, coming to us from Vienna. He will play all the five Beethoven Piano Concertos, and the TICO Orchestra will also perform ballet music from Beethoven’s Creatures of Prometheus.
The concerts of April 1 and 3, 2012, titled Hebraic Voices, will bring us various aspects of the Jewish orchestral experience, with music by Prokoffiev (Overture on Hebrew Themes), Morton Gould (his Suite from the television miniseries Holocaust), and as soloist, the young and dynamic cellist Julian Schwarz, who will play Max Bruch’s Kol Nidre, and Ernest Bloch’s monumental statement, the Hebraic Rhapsody Schelomo. This concert will be presented at Ner Tamid Synagogue, 15318 Pomerado Rd., Poway, and at Tifereth Israel Synagogue.
The June 10 and 12 concerts will feature as guests a husband and wife, as conductor and solo flutist. Titled In Nature, musical works depicting inspirations which our Earth has given composers, will include Smetana’s From Bohemia’s Meadows and Forests, Glazunov’s Autumn, from his ballet The Seasons, Vivaldi’s popular concerto for flute and orchestra, La Notte, and what is arguably the best depiction of nature in music, Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.
The July 15 and 22 Pops concerts will include light classics, Broadway, television, films, and other favorites.
For more information, individual or group tickets, reservations, directions, or a season brochure, call the Tifereth Israel Synagogue office, (619) 697 6001, or you can buy your tickets online at www.tiferethisrael.com/TICO
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Amos is the conductor of the Tifereth Israel Community Orechestra and has guest conducted professional orchestras around the world. He may be contacted at david.amos@sdjewishworld.com