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Arts Aug 06, 2014
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AUGUST 9 AT SANTA ANITA RACE TRACK AND AUGUST 10 AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
Movie Masterpieces, one of the most-anticipated concerts of California
Philharmonic’s 2014 summer season, premieres this weekend, Saturday August 9
at Santa Anita Race Track and Sunday August 10 at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Virtuoso violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn will bring The Red Violin to life on
the actual instrument that inspired the 1998 drama, which follows the
300-year-journey of a violin crafted in 1861 in Cremola, Italy. Pitcairn’s
performance on Sunday August 10 will mark her long-awaited Walt Disney
Concert Hall debut.
“From the first moment I plucked the strings at Christie’s Auction House at
age 16, it has been a passionate partnership,” said Pitcairn of the
24-year-old bond she shares with the renowned instrument that she nicknamed
“Felix” after the great composer Felix Mendelssohn and describes as a
masculine entity with the soul of a woman. “I have been dreaming of this
moment, to finally hear the sound of one of the world’s acoustical marvels
complimented by the perfectly designed acoustical space which is Disney
Concert Hall.”
While Sunday marks a first for Pitcairn, it is not the first time she has
collaborated with the esteemed Maestro Victor Vener.
“Before the music was even published, Maestro Victor Vener, with incredible
vision and foresight, invited me to perform Academy Award winning composer
John Corigliano’s The Red Violin: Chaconne For Violin And Orchestra with him
in the year 2000. It holds its place in history as the Southern California
debut of that score. We played for an audience of 5000. They went nuts at
the end,” continued Pitcairn, the third violinist in the world to perform
the piece at that time. “I admire Maestro Vener greatly, especially for his
gift to the world in bringing music to so many.”
“When I play the Chaconne, it has a haunting quality, and in that moment I
feel the violin is speaking, and my skin prickles all over,” shared
Pitcairn. “I’m sure the audience will feel it too at Walt Disney Concert
Hall on August 10th.”
Movie Masterpieces also features music from such blockbusters as Pirates of
the Caribbean, Titanic, Star Trek and Game of Thrones as well as selections
from Frozen, featuring soloist Tara Alexander singing ‘For the First Time in
Forever’ and ‘Let It Go.’
What’s more, Vener and the orchestra will be performing pacific vistas, a
work composed for Cal Phil by its resident composer, rogerallenward, who
notes “The piece is like a miniature movie of Los Angeles, with scenes at
Venice Beach, Pasadena and the Hollywood hills.”
Audiences throughout Southern California have options to attend extremely
different experiences of Cal Phil’s one-of-a-kind concerts at two iconic
venues; every other Saturday evening at Santa Anita Race Track on the
infield with the beautiful unobstructed backdrop of the San Gabriel
Mountains or Sunday matinees at Los Angeles’ most vaunted music destination,
the incomparable Walt Disney Concert Hall.
To purchase tickets to attend California Philharmonic concerts at Santa
Anita Race Track, call 626.304.0333 or
www.calphil.com.
Tickets for Walt Disney Concert Hall are available for purchase through
Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000 or online at
