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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The colossal season closer features Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 2, celebrating a fallen hero, his meandering retrospect on life, and his final judgement and redemption. While Mahler himself gave the symphony no name, it is known to many as “Resurrection.”[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Program<\/strong><\/h4>\n

JoAnn Falletta, conductor<\/em>
\nIlana Davidson, soprano<\/em>
\nSusan Platts, mezzo-soprano<\/em>
\nBuffalo Philharmonic Chorus<\/p>\n

MAHLER<\/strong> \u00a0Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection”<\/a>
\nI. Allegro maestoso (Totenfeier)
\nII. Andante moderato
\nIII. In ruhig flie\u00dfender Bewegung
\nIV. “Urlicht” (Primal Light)
\nV. Im Tempo des Scherzos<\/p>\n

This performance is made possible by the Michal and Jim Wadsworth Concert Endowment.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

About Ilana Davidson<\/strong>
\nSoprano<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\"\"Soprano Ilana Davidson has enjoyed a busy schedule of opera, concerts, and recitals, performing repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque to the 21st<\/sup> century. Her performances have included William Bolcom’s Songs Of Innocence and of Experience<\/em> conducted by Leonard Slatkin at Carnegie Hall, which earned 4 GRAMMY Awards including Best Classical Album and Best Composition; as well as Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (broadcast live), Mozart Arias at the Royal Concertgebouw Hall, Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre<\/em> in the Netherlands, Krenek’s Das Geheime K\u00f6nigreich<\/em> in Vienna, Gluck\u2019s Orfeo ed Euridice,<\/em> and Mahler Symphony No. 2 with the Qu\u00e9bec Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Recent highlights include Carnegie Hall performances of Mona Lisa<\/em> (Von Schillings), Der Diktator<\/em> (Krenek), Songs From Jewish Folk Poetry<\/em> (Shostakovich) with the American Symphony Orchestra and TON, a debut with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice<\/em>, Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Keith Lockhart at the Brevard Music Festival, Mozart\u2019s Requiem<\/em> with the Bellingham Music Festival, and numerous chamber music festivals in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

Recital highlights include a tour of the Lieder of Ernst Krenek, the New York Festival of Song, appearances with the Bard Music Festival, and the Annenberg Center in Palm Desert. Ms. Davidson has performed major works and operatic roles with the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Florida Grand Opera, Nationale Reisopera, Vlaamse Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Berkshire Choral Festival, Harrisburg Symphony, Duke Chapel, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Krenek Festival Vienna, Innsbruck Early Music Festival, and the Schwetzinger Festspiele.<\/p>\n

She has performed Haydn’s Creation<\/em>, Mozart’s Requiem<\/em>, and Handel’s Messiah<\/em> with the Berkshire Choral Festival. She has appeared with the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival, Electric Earth Concerts, Monadnock Music, Staunton Music Festival, Ars Antiqua, Saltbay Chamberfest, and Montage Music Society, as well as the Riverdale Choral Society as Anne in Annelies<\/em> by James Whitbourn.<\/p>\n

Ilana is featured on several commercial recordings, including works of Bolcom, Krenek, Weill, Zorn, Britten, Elwood, and more. She was awarded a BRIO award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, received a first prize in the Mostly Mozart Competition of Philadelphia, was a Sullivan Foundation recipient, and has been awarded several Bronx Council on the Arts project grants.<\/p>\n

Ilana Davidson received her Master of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, received her Bachelor of Voice from Carnegie Mellon University, attended the Aston Manga Early Music Academy, and was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons. Ilana received her yoga teacher training (RYT 200) in 2018.<\/p>\n

From 2011-2022, she served as artistic director and founder of the ClassicalCaf\u00e9 Chamber Music series, dedicated to bringing world-class chamber music to intimate settings. She is currently the artistic director and founder of the Serenata Chamber Series.<\/p>\n

Ilana has an active voice studio and created Vocally Mindful, a healing course for singers. She is also the cantorial soloist at Congregation Sons of Israel in Nyack.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

About Susan Platts<\/strong>
\nMezzo-soprano<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\"\"British-born Canadian mezzo-soprano Susan Platts brings a uniquely rich and wide-ranging voice to concert and recital repertoire for alto and mezzo-soprano, particularly esteemed for her performances of Gustav Mahler’s works. She is a Fellow of the Rolex Mentor and Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Arts Initiative, which gave her the opportunity to work closely with Jessye Norman.<\/p>\n

Ms. Platts has performed at Covent Garden, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro di San Carlo, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center, as well as with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Minnesota Orchestras, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, the symphonies of Montreal, Toronto, American, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Houston, Les Violons du Roy, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, as well as the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras.<\/p>\n

She has collaborated with many of today\u2019s leading conductors including John Adams, Marin Alsop, Roberto Abbado, Sir Andrew Davis, Ludovic Morlot, Leon Botstein, Josep Caball\u00e9-Domenech, Christoph Eschenbach, JoAnn Falletta, Jane Glover, Vladimir Jurowski, Jeffrey Kahane, Carlos Kalmar, Keith Lockhart, Kent Nagano, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, Sir Roger Norrington, Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Bramwell Tovey, Osmo V\u00e4nska, and Pinchas Zuckerman.\u00a0Ms. Platts has appeared on many distinguished art song series including Vocal Arts Society at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Ladies Morning Musical Club in Montreal, Aldeburgh Connection in Toronto, and both the Frick Collection and Lincoln Center \u201cArt of the Song\u201d series in New York City.<\/p>\n

Ms. Platts\u2019 recent opera highlights include Die Walk\u00fcre<\/i> with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart’s Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/i> at the Royal Opera House,\u00a0John Adams’ Nixon in China<\/i> with the BBC Symphony, as well as Britten’s Albert Herring<\/i> (Pacific Opera, Vancouver Opera), Erda in Wagner\u2019s Das Rheingold<\/i> (Pacific Opera), and Bernstein\u2019s A Quiet Place<\/i> (Montreal Symphony Orchestra).<\/p>\n

Ms. Platts\u2019 discography includes a\u00a0recent release on the Naxos label of La Trag\u00e9die de Salom\u00e9<\/i> (Florent Schmitt) with the BPO,\u00a0Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde<\/i> (chamber version) also on Naxos, Das Lied von der Erde<\/i> (full version) for Fontec Records with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen<\/i> with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica for Dorian Records, Brahms Zwei Ges\u00e4nge<\/i> with Steven Dann and Lambert Orkis, and a solo disc of Lieder by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms on the ATMA label.<\/p>\n

In 2021, she pursued her love of baking and wrote a cookbook, titled\u00a0Aria Ready for Dessert? \u2013 A Musician Takes Center Stage in the Kitchen<\/i>. She also started a food blog called \u201cBaking, Bits & Bobs.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","excerpt":"

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The colossal season closer features Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 2, celebrating a fallen hero, his meandering retrospect on life, and his final judgement and redemption. While Mahler himself gave the symphony no name, it is known to many as “Resurrection.”[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Program<\/strong><\/h4>\n

JoAnn Falletta, conductor<\/em>
\nIlana Davidson, soprano<\/em>
\nSusan Platts, mezzo-soprano<\/em>
\nBuffalo Philharmonic Chorus<\/p>\n

MAHLER<\/strong> \u00a0Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection”<\/a>
\nI. Allegro maestoso (Totenfeier)
\nII. Andante moderato
\nIII. In ruhig flie\u00dfender Bewegung
\nIV. “Urlicht” (Primal Light)
\nV. Im Tempo des Scherzos<\/p>\n

This performance is made possible by the Michal and Jim Wadsworth Concert Endowment.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

About Ilana Davidson<\/strong>
\nSoprano<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\"\"Soprano Ilana Davidson has enjoyed a busy schedule of opera, concerts, and recitals, performing repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque to the 21st<\/sup> century. Her performances have included William Bolcom’s Songs Of Innocence and of Experience<\/em> conducted by Leonard Slatkin at Carnegie Hall, which earned 4 GRAMMY Awards including Best Classical Album and Best Composition; as well as Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (broadcast live), Mozart Arias at the Royal Concertgebouw Hall, Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre<\/em> in the Netherlands, Krenek’s Das Geheime K\u00f6nigreich<\/em> in Vienna, Gluck\u2019s Orfeo ed Euridice,<\/em> and Mahler Symphony No. 2 with the Qu\u00e9bec Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Recent highlights include Carnegie Hall performances of Mona Lisa<\/em> (Von Schillings), Der Diktator<\/em> (Krenek), Songs From Jewish Folk Poetry<\/em> (Shostakovich) with the American Symphony Orchestra and TON, a debut with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice<\/em>, Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Keith Lockhart at the Brevard Music Festival, Mozart\u2019s Requiem<\/em> with the Bellingham Music Festival, and numerous chamber music festivals in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

Recital highlights include a tour of the Lieder of Ernst Krenek, the New York Festival of Song, appearances with the Bard Music Festival, and the Annenberg Center in Palm Desert. Ms. Davidson has performed major works and operatic roles with the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Florida Grand Opera, Nationale Reisopera, Vlaamse Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Berkshire Choral Festival, Harrisburg Symphony, Duke Chapel, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Krenek Festival Vienna, Innsbruck Early Music Festival, and the Schwetzinger Festspiele.<\/p>\n

She has performed Haydn’s Creation<\/em>, Mozart’s Requiem<\/em>, and Handel’s Messiah<\/em> with the Berkshire Choral Festival. She has appeared with the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival, Electric Earth Concerts, Monadnock Music, Staunton Music Festival, Ars Antiqua, Saltbay Chamberfest, and Montage Music Society, as well as the Riverdale Choral Society as Anne in Annelies<\/em> by James Whitbourn.<\/p>\n

Ilana is featured on several commercial recordings, including works of Bolcom, Krenek, Weill, Zorn, Britten, Elwood, and more. She was awarded a BRIO award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, received a first prize in the Mostly Mozart Competition of Philadelphia, was a Sullivan Foundation recipient, and has been awarded several Bronx Council on the Arts project grants.<\/p>\n

Ilana Davidson received her Master of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, received her Bachelor of Voice from Carnegie Mellon University, attended the Aston Manga Early Music Academy, and was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center for two seasons. Ilana received her yoga teacher training (RYT 200) in 2018.<\/p>\n

From 2011-2022, she served as artistic director and founder of the ClassicalCaf\u00e9 Chamber Music series, dedicated to bringing world-class chamber music to intimate settings. She is currently the artistic director and founder of the Serenata Chamber Series.<\/p>\n

Ilana has an active voice studio and created Vocally Mindful, a healing course for singers. She is also the cantorial soloist at Congregation Sons of Israel in Nyack.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

About Susan Platts<\/strong>
\nMezzo-soprano<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\"\"British-born Canadian mezzo-soprano Susan Platts brings a uniquely rich and wide-ranging voice to concert and recital repertoire for alto and mezzo-soprano, particularly esteemed for her performances of Gustav Mahler’s works. She is a Fellow of the Rolex Mentor and Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Arts Initiative, which gave her the opportunity to work closely with Jessye Norman.<\/p>\n

Ms. Platts has performed at Covent Garden, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro di San Carlo, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center, as well as with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Minnesota Orchestras, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, the symphonies of Montreal, Toronto, American, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Houston, Les Violons du Roy, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, as well as the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras.<\/p>\n

She has collaborated with many of today\u2019s leading conductors including John Adams, Marin Alsop, Roberto Abbado, Sir Andrew Davis, Ludovic Morlot, Leon Botstein, Josep Caball\u00e9-Domenech, Christoph Eschenbach, JoAnn Falletta, Jane Glover, Vladimir Jurowski, Jeffrey Kahane, Carlos Kalmar, Keith Lockhart, Kent Nagano, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, Sir Roger Norrington, Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Bramwell Tovey, Osmo V\u00e4nska, and Pinchas Zuckerman.\u00a0Ms. Platts has appeared on many distinguished art song series including Vocal Arts Society at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Ladies Morning Musical Club in Montreal, Aldeburgh Connection in Toronto, and both the Frick Collection and Lincoln Center \u201cArt of the Song\u201d series in New York City.<\/p>\n

Ms. Platts\u2019 recent opera highlights include Die Walk\u00fcre<\/i> with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart’s Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/i> at the Royal Opera House,\u00a0John Adams’ Nixon in China<\/i> with the BBC Symphony, as well as Britten’s Albert Herring<\/i> (Pacific Opera, Vancouver Opera), Erda in Wagner\u2019s Das Rheingold<\/i> (Pacific Opera), and Bernstein\u2019s A Quiet Place<\/i> (Montreal Symphony Orchestra).<\/p>\n

Ms. Platts\u2019 discography includes a\u00a0recent release on the Naxos label of La Trag\u00e9die de Salom\u00e9<\/i> (Florent Schmitt) with the BPO,\u00a0Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde<\/i> (chamber version) also on Naxos, Das Lied von der Erde<\/i> (full version) for Fontec Records with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen<\/i> with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica for Dorian Records, Brahms Zwei Ges\u00e4nge<\/i> with Steven Dann and Lambert Orkis, and a solo disc of Lieder by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms on the ATMA label.<\/p>\n

In 2021, she pursued her love of baking and wrote a cookbook, titled\u00a0Aria Ready for Dessert? \u2013 A Musician Takes Center Stage in the Kitchen<\/i>. She also started a food blog called \u201cBaking, Bits & Bobs.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","excerpt":"

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Master illusionist Michael Grandinetti performs jaw-dropping feats of prestidigitation to magical symphonic selections, including favorite works by John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Saint-Sa\u00ebns, and more with your BPO.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Program<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Fernanda Lastra, conductor<\/em><\/strong>
\nMichael Grandinetti, illusionist
\n<\/em>Amy Glidden, violin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JOHN WILLIAMS<\/strong> \u00a0Selections from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone <\/em>Suite for Orchestra:
\nHedwig’s Theme
\nNimbus 2000
\nThe Sorcerer’s Stone<\/p>\n

FALLA<\/strong>\u00a0 Ritual Fire Dance from\u00a0El amor brujo<\/em><\/p>\n

ALAN SILVESTRI<\/strong> \u00a0Suite from Back to the Future<\/em><\/p>\n

MUSSORGSKY \/ orch. Rimsky-Korsakov<\/strong> \u00a0A Night on Bald Mountain<\/em><\/p>\n


\n\u2013INTERMISSION\u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nJOHN WILLIAMS<\/strong> \u00a0Flight from Neverland from Hook<\/em><\/p>\n

JOHN WILLIAMS<\/strong> \u00a0Yoda’s Theme from Star Wars<\/em>: Suite for Orchestra<\/p>\n

SAINT-SA\u00cbNS\u00a0 <\/strong>Danse macabre<\/em>, Op. 40<\/p>\n

JOHN WILLIAMS<\/strong> \u00a0Parade of the Ewoks from The Star Wars Saga<\/em><\/p>\n

LALA SCHIFRIN \/ arr. Calvin Custer<\/strong> \u00a0Theme from Mission Impossible<\/em><\/p>\n

JOHN WILLIAMS<\/strong> \u00a0The Chamber of Secrets from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\u00a0<\/em>Suite for Orchestra<\/p>\n

JOHN WILLIAMS<\/strong> \u00a0Throne Room & End Title from Star Wars<\/em>: Suite for Orchestra<\/p>\n

JOHN WILLIAMS<\/strong> \u00a0Harry’s Wondrous World from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone\u00a0<\/em>Suite for Orchestra[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

About Michael Grandinetti<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Named by Entertainment Weekly<\/em> as \u201ca great magician,\u201d Hidden Remote <\/em>as a \u201cfan favorite\u2026with charisma and an easy rapport with an audience,\u201d and Digital Journal<\/em> as \u201cthe one to watch in magic in a show that is five out of five stars,\u201d Michael Grandinetti is not your ordinary magician.<\/p>\n

With performances on national and international television, in stadiums, arenas, casinos, and theaters around the country, with Oscar-winning composers and symphony orchestras, for NFL and NBA halftime shows and major sporting events, for Fortune 500 companies, and even at the White House, Michael has made a name for himself around the world as an extremely talented and innovative magician and illusionist.<\/p>\n

Over the past 20 years, Michael has been driven to make magic contemporary and give it a wide, mainstream appeal. He has had starring roles on NBC\u2019s The World\u2019s Most Dangerous Magic II<\/em>, five seasons of The CW\u2019s Masters of Illusion<\/em> (also syndicated in over 100 countries worldwide), and POP\u2019s Don\u2019t Blink<\/em>, and his magic has been featured on the Emmy-nominated FOX series Bones<\/em>, The Today Show, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, SportsCenter, <\/em>and The Bold and the Beautiful.<\/em> Michael has also been featured in Parade, Entertainment Weekly, <\/em>AXS.com, Hidden Remote, Starpulse, The Huffington Post, Young Hollywood, <\/em>and The Beverly Hills Times<\/em>. Michael was a featured guest on CNBC\u2019s Make It<\/em>, a series about people who have achieved success in challenging industries, as well as on the cover of TV Times<\/em>, released nationally across the U.S.<\/p>\n

Possessing a true passion for amazing live audiences, Michael has performed at a wide range of venues nationwide, including Heinz Hall with renowned conductor Marvin Hamlisch and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; casinos including Harrah\u2019s Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, Three Rivers Casino Resort, Saratoga Casino, Spirit Lake Casino, Casino Rama, and Shooting Star Casino; and theaters and arenas including Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (Los Angeles, CA), Durham Performing Arts Center (Durham, NC), A.J. Palumbo Center (Pittsburgh, PA), Paramount Theater (Huntington, NY), Symphony Hall (Phoenix, AZ), and Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte, NC), surrounded by 60,000 people for the Carolina Panthers Halftime Show. Michael has also performed custom presentations for major corporations including Google, Southwest Airlines, Ernst & Young, The American Marketing Association, Mazda, Rite-Aid, Harley Davidson, and many more.<\/p>\n

In addition, Michael was honored to be the first illusionist ever invited to perform in the National Independence Day Parade in Washington D.C. During this remarkable celebration, Michael levitated a girl high above one of the floats as it moved down Constitution Avenue, while a live audience of 250,000 people watched in amazement.<\/p>\n

The Magic of Michael Grandinetti LIVE production features breathtaking wonders from Michael\u2019s extraordinary career, right before your very eyes. Legendary magic plots of levitation, teleportation, mind reading, and more are reimagined for today’s audiences, making them more visual, surprising, and\u00a0even more astounding than ever before. However, audiences don\u2019t just watch the magic; they\u2019re pulled into an interactive experience where everyone in the theater becomes part of the magic! By blurring the line between illusion and reality in a groundbreaking yet personable way, Michael Grandinetti gives his audiences an engaging, entertaining, and one-of-a-kind experience they\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n

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