The Popular Classics Series

The Popular Classics Series: Closest to the Heart
With concerts dedicated to Love and Nature, Storms and the Seasons

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Popular Classics 1
Wednesday 24.10.12

Nature

Frédéric Chaslin, conductor
Frédéric Chaslin and Adi Neuhaus, piano

Dvořák - In Nature’s Realm
Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

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Popular Classics 2
Thursday 22.11.12
In cooperation with the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art

Frédéric Chaslin, conductor
Sean Lee, violin (Winner of the Irving and Mollie Sanders Memorial Juilliard and Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Prize)

Yusupov - Maximum (in celebration of the composer’s 50th anniversary)
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
Dvořák - Symphony No. 7

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Popular Classics 3
Wednesday 12.12.12



Love

Frédéric Chaslin, conductor
Jennifer Holloway, mezzo-soprano

Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet
Chaslin - Love and a Question (Robert Frost)
De Falla - Excerpts from El Amor Brujo
Bizet - Excerpts from Carmen

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Popular Classics 4
Monday 14.1.13
In cooperation with Music Angels, Herzliya

Emil Tabakov, conductor
Alexander Kniazev, cello

Toister - Ki Anu Amekha, Symphonic Poem
Tchaikovsky - Roccoco Variations
Schumann - Symphony No. 2

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Popular Classics 5
Wednesday 20.3.13
I

Canceled

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Popular Classics 6
Thursday 11.4.13
In cooperation with Music Angels, Herzliya

Ruben Gazarian, conductor
Ofra Yitzhaki, piano

Beethoven - Consecration of the House: Overture
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor
Dvořák - Symphony No. 9, From the New World

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Popular Classics 7
Monday 13.5.13
In cooperation with Music Angels, Herzliya

Mario Kosik, conductor
Hagai Shaham, violin

Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Brahms - Hungarian Dances
Liszt -  Les préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3

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Popular Classics 8
Wednesday 22.5.13

Seasons

Frédéric Chaslin, conductor
Verdi - Le quattro staggioni (The Four Seasons), ballet music from I Vespri Siciliani (Israeli premiere)

Copland - Appalachian Spring: Suite

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Popular Classics 9
Thursday 27.6.13
In cooperation with Music Angels, Herzliya

Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor
Farhad Badalbeyli, piano

Verdi - Nabucco: Overture
Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F
Smetana - Moldava, from Má vlast
Smetana - Selections from The Bartered Bride

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