NSO Classical: 2008-2009 Season

Events

• Nights at the Movies: Classical Hollywood

  Sep 11, 2008 at 8:00 PM | Buy Now
  Conductor/host Richard Kaufman leads movie music accompanied by images. In "Classical Hollywood," enjoy Disney's Sleeping Beauty, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Raging Bull, Alien, The Godfather, Forrest Gump, and more.

• Nights at the Movies: The Golden Age of Film Music

  Sep 12, 2008 at 8:00 PM | Buy Now
  Conductor/host Richard Kaufman leads movie music accompanied by images. In this concert, enjoy selections from Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus, Gone with the Wind, The Magnificent Seven, The Wizard of Oz, and more.

• Season Opening Ball Concert

  Sep 20, 2008 at 7:00 PM | Buy Now
  Itzhak Perlman conducts a concert featuring viola virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman and rising star cellist Alisa Weilerstein. For more information on tickets to the Season Opening Ball, call (202) 416-8102.

• Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor/Hélène Grimaud, piano, plays Beethoven

  Oct 2 - 4, 2008 | On Sale 8/11/08,
  "Hélène Grimaud is a fine pianist, both sensitive and passionate," says the New York Times. She makes her NSO debut in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. Miguel Harth-Bedoya also conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.

• Iván Fischer, conductor/Mahler's Symphony No. 3

  Oct 16 - 18, 2008 | On Sale 8/11/08,
  NSO Principal Conductor Iván Fischer leads Mahler's masterful Symphony No. 3. The Philadelphia Enquirer says he "conducts with a boldness… warm, distinctly pliant sounds."

• Iván Fischer, conductor/Steven Isserlis, cello, plays Haydn

  Oct 23 - 25, 2008 | On Sale 8/11/08,
  "Steve Isserlis is the cello's best ambassador," says The Times of London. He makes his NSO debut in Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major led by NSO Principal Conductor Iván Fischer. The program also includes Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2.

• Iván Fischer, conductor/All-Wagner Program

  Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2008 | On Sale 8/11/08,
  NSO Principal Conductor Iván Fischer leads an all-Wagner program featuring selections from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Götterdämmerung, Tristan und Isolde, and Die Walküre.

• Michael Christie, conductor/Jennifer Koh, violin, plays Bernstein

  Nov 13 - 15, 2008 | On Sale 8/11/08,
  Violinist Jennifer Koh performs Bernstein's Serenade. In his NSO debut, conductor Michael Christie also leads two masterpieces by Stravinsky.