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Stanford Philharmonia
Stanford Philharmonia is a select chamber orchestra of about 50 musicians conducted by Paul Phillips, Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford. SP performs concerts in Bing Concert Hall and venues throughout the Palo Alto vicinity. Membership consists mainly of undergraduate and graduate students plus several staff members and alumni. The orchestra performs repertoire from the Baroque to the present, frequently with outstanding student and faculty soloists as well as renowned visiting artists.
*Programming and artists subject to change, please refer to the participating organization’s calendar listing for the most up-to-date program.
Events
California Festival
For CA Festival, we are presenting Stanford alumnus and a very prominent composer of our time, William Bolcom (b. 1938) in "Celebration of New Music". Especially, we are honored to west-coast premiere of the piece, Dedication (2022), by William Bolcom during our Stanford Philharmonia Fall Concert, conducted by Paul Phillips, as part of the CA Festival this year. Along with Bolcom, Mozart's Symphony No.34 in C Major, K. 338, Strauss Jr.'s The Beautiful Blue Danube, and Schubert's Symphony No.2 will be performed. We will transport you on a Viennese reverie, right here on the west coast.
Piece(s)/Composer(s)
SYMPHONY NO. 34 IN C MAJOR
MOZART
DEDICATION, 2022
William BOLCOM
THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE
STRAUSS
SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN B-FLAT MAJOR
SCHUBERT
Program Notes
For CA Festival, we are presenting Stanford alumnus and a very prominent composer of our time, William Bolcom (b. 1938) in "Celebration of New Music". Especially, we are honored to west-coast premiere of the piece, Dedication (2022), by William Bolcom during our Stanford Philharmonia Fall Concert, conducted by Paul Phillips, as part of the CA Festival this year. Along with Bolcom, Mozart's Symphony No.34 in C Major, K. 338, Strauss Jr.'s The Beautiful Blue Danube, and Schubert's Symphony No.2 will be performed. We will transport you on a Viennese reverie, right here on the west coast.
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