Event Calendar
Viennese Nights
Saturday, February 11, 2017, 7:30 pm
CLASSICAL CONCERT
Diane Wittry, Music Director/Conductor
Special guests pianist Katie Mahan, soprano Jessica Lennick, and the Bel Canto Children’s Chorus of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem under the direction of Joy Hirokawa join the Allentown Symphony Orchestra at Miller Symphony Hall. They will be performing works including Nicolai’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” Schubert’s “Ballet Music from ‘Rosamunde,” Suppé’s “Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna,” and Strauss’ “On the Beautiful Blue Danube.”
Katie Mahan will be featured in Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 17” and Lehar’s “Merry Widow Waltz.” Mahan is an American pianist who has performed throughout USA, Europe, Canada, the Middle East, Russia and Japan with conductors such as Jiri Belohlavek, Marin Alsop, Grant Cooper, and Lawrence Leighton-Smith, among others. She has taken part in master classes by renowned musicians including Lang Lang, Simon Trpceski, and Michel Béroff and has performed with a wide range of orchestras through the US and internationally including the Prague Philharmonia, Colorado Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Cheyenne Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Boulder Philharmonic, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, and the Wiener Residenz Orchestra. She aspires to foster the arts and give through music, founding the Katie Mahan Foundation “Music for a Bright Tomorrow” in 2014 as a means of doing this.
Jessica Lennick is featured in Strauss’ “Overture to Die Fledermaus.” Lennick is an acclaimed soprano having performed at the Washington Camerata of DC, Chesapeake Chamber Opera, and Center City Opera Theater, among others. She was a finalist in the Annapolis Opera Competition and a finalist in the Great Lakes Regional competition for the Metropolitan National Council Auditions. She has also appeared at the Caramoor Festival covering the role of Giulietta and sang as a soloist with Roberto Abbado and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Midsummer Night’s Dream. The American Record Guide called her “stratospheric singing…stunning [as] she tosses off gleaming high E-flats and Fs” and the Baltimore examiner gleamed that she “is a complete package, including a terrific smile and stage presence to go along with her pleasing voice.”
PROGRAM
NICOLAI Merry Wives of Windsor
SCHUBERT Ballet Music from Rosamunde
ballet dance performed by Elisabeth Lee and Malcolm Burton
SUPPÉ Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17 (1st Mvt)
with KATIE MAHAN, piano soloist
LEHAR Merry Widow Waltz
with KATIE MAHAN, piano soloist
STRAUSS Overture to Die Fledermaus
Laughing Song with JESSICA LENNICK, Soprano
Czardas with JESSICA LENNICK, Soprano
STRAUSS On the Beautiful Blue Danube
dancing the waltz are Rachel Keppel and Charles Danza
STRAUSS Sangerlust Polka (the Joy of Singing)
with BEL CANTO CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF THE BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM/Joy Hirokawa, Artistic Director
STRAUSS Tritsch-Tratsch (Chit-Chat) Polka
with BEL CANTO CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF THE BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM/Joy Hirokawa, Artistic Director
STRAUSS Radetzky March
with BEL CANTO CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF THE BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM/Joy Hirokawa, Artistic Director
KATIE MAHAN
JESSICA LENNICK
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