{"id":5862,"date":"2011-02-23T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T00:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:37:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:37:23","slug":"last-minute-substitute-for-oregon-symphony-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/23\/last-minute-substitute-for-oregon-symphony-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"last minute substitute for oregon symphony concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got this news from the Oregon Symphony press office:<\/p>\n

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Alondra de la Parra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Guest conductor Alondra de la Parra has been forced to withdraw\u00a0from the Oregon Symphony\u2019s \u201cThomas Lauderdale Plays Grieg\u201d Classical series\u00a0concerts Feb. 26-28 for personal reasons. Young British conductor Michael Francis \u2013\u00a0who is quickly earning a reputation as the man to call when high-profile orchestras need\u00a0a last-minute replacement \u2013 will fill in, making his Oregon Symphony debut.\u00a0Artistic Administrator Charles Calmer learned of the cancellation shortly after noon\u00a0yesterday. After several hours on the phone with conductors\u2019 agents and managers\u00a0he had contracted Maestro Francis, and Symphony librarians and staffers were at work\u00a0securing plane reservations from London and forwarding large files of the scores to be\u00a0performed this weekend. [note: you may remember that Francis was included in a list of “Young Conductors to Watch”<\/a> at the Daily Beast]<\/p>\n

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Conductor Michael Francis - Photo: Chris Christodoulou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is no change in the program. Francis will lead the orchestra in a concert that includes Igor Stravinsky\u2019s Four Norwegian Moods; Franz Schubert\u2019s chamber-like\u00a0Symphony No 5; Edvard Grieg\u2019s Piano Concerto with Pink Martini founder Thomas\u00a0Lauderdale as piano soloist; and Mexican composer Arturo M\u00e1rquez\u2019s Danz\u00f3n No. 2.\u00a0The program will be performed four times \u2013 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday\u00a0and 8 p.m. Monday at downtown Portland\u2019s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall \u2013 before\u00a0Francis and the orchestra travel to Salem for a repeat performance at 8 p.m. Tuesday in\u00a0Willamette University\u2019s Smith Hall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Francis is a rising star in the classical world following a series of dramatic successes\u00a0as a last-minute podium substitute with major orchestras at high-profile concerts. He\u00a0first captured attention in 2006 when he stepped out of the bass section of the London\u00a0Symphony Orchestra — where he\u2019d been performing for three years \u2013 and into a\u00a0rehearsal of Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 as an emergency podium substitute while\u00a0the orchestra was on tour.<\/p>\n

Three successive emergencies followed in 2007, as Francis again got the call to fill\u00a0in again: With 12 hours notice he replaced Valery Gergiev for the BBC’s Gubaidulina\u00a0Festival at London\u2019s . . . Barbican; one month later, on two hours notice, he replaced\u00a0John Adams in a performance of Adams\u2019 own works with the London Symphony at the\u00a0Philharmonie Luxembourg; and in January 2009, he was asked to replace Andr\u00e9 Previn.<\/p>\n

In 2008, on New Year\u2019s Eve he was asked to have two distinct programs ready for four\u00a0concerts the following week with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and Germany\u2019s Stuttgart\u00a0Radio Symphony. As a result of his success and the critical praise which followed, the\u00a0Stuttgart orchestra immediately hired Francis to conduct concerts in June 2009 and\u00a0March 2010. In April 2010 he again joined forces with Mutter, conducting a series of\u00a0concerts in Tokyo and Taiwan, and in November 2010 he made his debut with the New\u00a0York Philharmonic, conducting the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Lichtes Spiel with\u00a0Mutter as soloist.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the three Portland performances are available at the Oregon Symphony\u00a0Ticket Office, 923 SW Washington St., in downtown Portland. Ticket office hours are\u00a010 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets may also be purchased by phone at\u00a0(503) 228-1353 or (800) 228-7343 during the same hours, at the concert hall box office\u00a0starting two hours before the performance, or online at any time from the orchestra\u2019s\u00a0web site, OrSymphony.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just got this news from the Oregon Symphony press office: Guest conductor Alondra de la Parra has been forced to withdraw\u00a0from the Oregon Symphony\u2019s \u201cThomas Lauderdale Plays Grieg\u201d Classical series\u00a0concerts Feb. 26-28 for personal reasons. Young British conductor Michael Francis \u2013\u00a0who is quickly earning a reputation as the man to call when high-profile orchestras need\u00a0a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[299,2],"tags":[2550,2552,2551,3668],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-alondra-de-la-parra","tag-emergency-substitution","tag-michael-francis","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1wy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5872,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/24\/the-real-deal\/","url_meta":{"origin":5862,"position":0},"title":"the real deal","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"You never know what you're going to get when a new guest conductor arrives. 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