North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra Will Complete Its 65th Season Sunday

The North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra will wrap up its 65th season Sunday, April 21 with a program that features its Music Director, Robert Lehmann on violin and his wife Kimberly on viola in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante.  The program also includes music by Richard Wagner and Bela Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra.

The concert begins at 3 p.m. at the Swampscott High School Auditorium, 200 Essex Street in Swampscott.  Ticket will be available at the door or can be purchased online atwww.nspo.org

Mr. and Mrs. Lehmann enjoy a rich musical partnership. Robert led the North Shore Philharmonic since 1999 and has performed as featured soloist/conductor several times. Kimberly, a violist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, has played violin and viola with the Orchestra and also has appeared with her husband as a featured soloist.

Bartok’s “Concerto for Orchestra” is renowned as one of the composer’s most dynamic and well-known works.  It is uniquely named a “concerto”, which typically features a solo instrument with orchestra.  The “Concerto for Orchestra”, however, is aptly named in that the Orchestra’s various sections are emphasized as if they, collectively, were “soloists” throughout the work.  It comprises five movements and is, perhaps, the signature accomplishment of one of the most important composers of the 20th century.  

Richard Wagner’s Prelude und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde is a concert version of the overture and an Act from the composer’s opera Tristan and Isolde.  It is noted for the powerful way it captures the range of orchestral colour, harmony and polyphony of the opera itself.

The North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1947.  A vibrant community orchestra, it is well-known throughout the area for its three subscription concerts and various special performances in local communities. The NSPO welcomes interested volunteers who wish to enhance their musical expression and may audition to become members of the Orchestra, or to work in Orchestra’s administration.  Interested persons may contact the Orchestra by email to nspo@comcast.net.

Submitted by NSPO