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05.16.06

Media Contact: Sally Corbett, Arts at Emory, 404-727-6678, sacorbe@emory.edu, or Nancy Condon, nancy.condon@emory.edu, 404-727-1687

2006-2007 Candler Concerts at Emory Continue Distinctive Artist Collaborations with Spice

The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University announces its 2006-2007 Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series, which includes David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness!; the English Concert with director and baroque violinist Andrew Manze; Edgar Meyer on double bass with Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile on mandolin; violinist Joshua Bell; Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano, and Samuel Ramey, bass; and the National Philharmonic of Russia with conductor Vladimir Spivakov and pianist Olga Kern. For more than 30 years, Emory’s Candler Series endowment has enabled Emory to bring artists that are top in their field to Atlanta. Discount series subscription packages can be purchased at the Arts at Emory Box Office in the Schwartz Center, by phone (404-727-5050) Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For fax orders, order forms are available online at www.arts.emory.edu. Single tickets go on sale September 12, 2006. The subscription packages offer discounts of 25% off the purchase of four or five concerts and 30% off the purchase of the full series. Subscriptions can range from $150 to $221.50, depending on the number of concerts ordered.

“This year’s series will continue to offer such remarkable artist pairings as Meyer and Thile, with classical and probably some bluegrass thrown in for good measure, and von Stade and Ramey. The spice for the season will be Krakauer’s ‘Klezmer Madness!’, which is going to be lots of fun, with its fusion of traditional klezmer, rock, jazz and other genres — definitely not your grandmother’s klezmer!” says Bob McKay, Schwartz Center director.

The reach of Emory’s Candler Series artists was extended in 2004 by the addition of the Emory Coca-Cola Artists-in-Residence Series masterclasses, lecture/demonstrations, and outreach. An asterisk in the following schedule indicates artists involved in residencies.

David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness!*
October 6, 2006
Tickets: general public $48; WABE and ArtsCard members, patrons over 65 and under 18, non-Emory students and other discount category members, $36; Emory students, $5

Internationally acclaimed clarinetist David Krakauer continues to expand the boundaries of music. One of the most original clarinetists of the time, Krakauer with the Klezmer Madness! ensemble fuses traditional klezmer music with rock, R&B, jazz, classical, funk, and hip-hop, appealing to those who remember yesterday’s klezmer and to the world music enthusiasts of today. This program has been warmly received at international festivals and such notable venues as the Library of Congress and La Cigale and New Morning in Paris.

The English Concert with director Andrew Manze, violin
Pre-concert lecture by Andrew Manze, 7:00-7:30 p.m.
November 9, 2006
Tickets: general public, $48; WABE and ArtsCard members, patrons over 65 and under 18, non-Emory students and other discount category members, $36; Emory students, $5

This mostly Mozart program commemorating the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth features an orchestra of 22 string and wind musicians performing three of the genius’s works as well as Bach’s Symphony No. 3 in F Major. BBC Music Magazine called this program “miraculously expressive” and a “wonderful contribution to the Mozart Year.” Manze, a sought-after conductor and one of today’s most passionate advocates of early music, left The Academy of Ancient Music in 2003 to direct The English Concert. The San Francisco Chronicle called Manze “the first modern superstar of the baroque violin.”

 Edgar Meyer, double bass, and Chris Thile, mandolin*
January 27, 2007
Tickets: general public, $48; WABE and ArtsCard members, patrons over 65 and under 18, non-Emory students and other discount category members, $36; Emory students, $5

Crossing traditional boundaries, world-renowned double bassist Edgar Meyer and Nickel Creek's celebrated mandolin player Chris Thile join forces for a program of original music. Grammy-winner Meyer is a composer, arranger and performer who shines in classical and bluegrass, a scope that earned him a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He has performed with artists ranging from the Emerson Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma and Wynton Marsalis to Garth Brooks, the Indigo Girls and James Taylor. Mandolin dynamo Thile, a virtuoso at age 12, now has three solo and two Nickel Creek albums, the most recent of which won a Grammy. He has worked with such notables as the Chieftains, Dixie Chicks and Hank Williams Jr.

Joshua Bell, violin*
February 10, 2007
Tickets: general public,$56; WABE and ArtsCard members, patrons over 65 and under 18, non-Emory students and other discount category members $42; Emory students, $5

Grammy-award winning virtuoso Joshua Bell made his professional debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 14, ten years after picking up his first violin. Now in his 30s, Bell and the sounds of his 1713 Gibson ex Huberman Stradivarius enchant global audiences. In 2004 Billboard named Bell Classical Artist of the Year and heralded his Romance of the Violin as Classical CD of the Year. He is a recent inductee into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame, was profiled in People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” issue, and was one of the first classical artists to have a video on VH1. According to Interview magazine, Bell’s playing “does nothing less than tell human beings why they bother to live.”

Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano, and Samuel Ramey, bass
February 24, 2007
Tickets: general public, $56; WABE and ArtsCard members, patrons over 65 and under 18, non-Emory students and other discount category members $42; Emory students, $5

Two of the world’s greatest vocalists, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and bass-baritone Samuel Ramey, appear together in a joint recital. Von Stade is known internationally for her work in opera and concert settings, with dozens of major awards and more than sixty albums to her credit. Ramey, the most recorded bass in history, is known for his portrayal of operatic devils and villains. Time Magazine referred to him as “a basso of extraordinary dramatic and lyric gifts.” With great versatility he commands a breadth of repertoire encompassing virtually every musical style.

National Philharmonic of Russia; Vladimir Spivakov, conductor; and Olga Kern, piano
March 27, 2007
Tickets: general public, $60; WABE and ArtsCard members, patrons over 65 and under 18, non-Emory students and other discount category members $45; Emory students, $10

Composed of Russia’s leading symphonic virtuosos and led by conductor and violinist Vladimir Spivakov, this orchestra is the preeminent musical symbol of the new Russia, a major musical institution, and cultural ambassador. Spivakov upholds the standards of Russia’s great symphonic traditions while performing rarely heard works, twentieth-century pieces, and compositions commissioned for the orchestra. Leonard Bernstein, who presented his baton to Spivakov, once said that Spivakov belonged “to the Olympus of music.” Russian pianist Olga Kern, the first woman in more than thirty years to win the Gold Medal of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, also is featured.

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