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For Immediate Release
Oberlin
College Announces 1998-99
Artist Recital Series
Media
Contact: Alice
Hirt Hug
Concerts take place in Finney Chapel
Located at the corner of Lorain (Route 511) and Professor Sts. in Oberlin.
Finney Chapel has two reserved seating areas.
The five-concert subscription ticket packages run:
$84 & $75.50,
general public
• $79 &
$70.50,
senior citizens &
Oberlin faculty/
staff/alumni
$46.50 & $41,all students
Single tickets range
from
$14/16-$22/24.
Subscriptions may be charged to MasterCard, Visa or American Express.
Central Ticket Service
24-hour reservation line:
(440) 775-8169
CTS is located in the lobby of Hall Auditorium,
Open 12 to 5 pm
Monday - Friday
Special Saturday Hours:
August 29 & September 5,
12 to 5 pm
OBERLIN, OHIO--Subscription ticket packages are now available for the 1998-99 Artist Recital Series at Oberlin College. The five-concert series--sponsored by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with the support of the Friends of the Artist Recital Series--features the Cleveland Orchestra; the Colorado Quartet; the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; pianist Jon Kimura Parker; and mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves.
This year marks the 120th season for the Artist Recital Series. Each concert is performed in the College's Finney Chapel, located at the intersection of Lorain (Route 511) and Professor streets, across from Tappan Square in Oberlin. To order tickets or a season brochure, please call the Oberlin College Central Ticket Service at (440) 775-8169.
The season begins on Sunday, October 11 with a special matinee performance at 4 pm by the Cleveland Orchestra. Joined by internationally-acclaimed conductor Franz Welser-Möst and cellist Clemens Hagen, the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra will perform Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde and Prelude to Act I of Parsifal, Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto, and Schumann's Symphony No. 2. The New York Times hailed them as "perhaps America's finest orchestra,...on a par with the august philharmonics of Vienna and Berlin."
The second concert of the season is at 8 pm on Tuesday, October 27, with the Colorado Quartet, Oberlin's quartet in residence for 1998-99. The award-winning Quartet features Julie Rosenfeld, violin; Deborah Redding, violin; Francesca Martin Silos, viola; and Diane Chaplin, cello. Their program will include works by Beethoven, Janacek, and a performance of Schubert's Cello Quintet with special guest Peter Rejto, Oberlin Conservatory Professor of violoncello. "Those who consider chamber music a staid affair would have been proven mightily wrong at the Colorado Quartet concert," wrote the Chicago Sun-Times. The Quartet's residency at Oberlin is funded by a grant from the Reinberger Foundation.
The three-concert spring season of the Artist Recital Series begins on Sunday, February 7 at 3 pm, with a special matinee performance by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Dennis Russell Davies conducts the program, which includes the U.S. premiere of Philip Glass' Days and Nights in Rocinha, Dance for Orchestra, Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3. Long one of America's most respected orchestras, the DSO enjoyed an extensive, critically-acclaimed European tour in spring of 1998. The Guardian (London) wrote, "It would be hard to exaggerate the achievement of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...not just of dazzling brilliance...but of stirring warmth, too."
On Tuesday, March 9 at 8 pm, Jon Kimura Parker will perform. One of Canada's most acclaimed pianists, Parker won the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1984 and has gone on to perform with such ensembles as the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra. A remarkably versatile artist, Parker performs music ranging from Beethoven to Nirvana, Chopin to Alanis Morissette. "[Audiences] respond to the incredible dexterity, the visceral energy and excitement, and the refined delicacy that suggest Parker has left no ivory unturned in his quest for the perfect reading of the music at hand," writes the Seattle Times.
The 1998-99 Artist Recital Series concludes on Tuesday, April 20 at 8 pm, with a performance by Denyce Graves with pianist Warren Jones. Since attending the Oberlin Conservatory in the 1980s, this award-winning mezzo-soprano has sung the title role in Carmen in over fifteen productions, and has appeared at such venues as the Zurich Opera, Vienna State Opera, Kennedy Center, and the Israel Philharmonic. The Washington Post called her "a unique artist, one who both commands and probes the far reaches of her voice, not only with total control but with obvious relish in communicating to the audience...[She] imbue[s] the sustaining power of her voice with a sense of sheer timelessness, an endless richness of overtones and seamless shifts of range."
The concert artists, programs, and dates are subject to change.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE ARTIST RECITAL SERIES
Subscriptions to the five-concert season, priced according to seating area in Finney Chapel, are $84 and $75.50 for the general public; $79 and $70.50 for senior citizens and Oberlin faculty/staff/alumni; and $46.50 and $41 for all students. A three-concert subscription package is available for $49 and $44 for the general public; $46 and $41 for senior citizens and Oberlin faculty/staff/alumni; and $27 and $24 for students. Single tickets range from $14/16 to $22/24 and will be available beginning September 25. To place your ticket order, please call Central Ticket Service (CTS) at (440) 775-8169.
Subscribers receive ticket discounts, priority seating, special discounts at the Oberlin Inn, and free shuttle service from the Oberlin Inn to Finney Chapel.
Artist Recital Series brochures are available through the CTS 24-hour telephone line (440) 775-8169, and at the CTS box office from noon until 5 pm, Mondays through Fridays. CTS is located in the lobby of Hall Auditorium on North Main Street between the Allen Art Museum and the Oberlin Inn. Subscriptions may be charged to Visa, MasterCard or American Express.
SINGLE TICKETS
Individual concert tickets are available beginning September 25. Single tickets are priced according to seating area in Finney Chapel. The Cleveland Orchestra single tickets are $24/22 general public; $22/20 senior citizens and Oberlin faculty/staff/ alumni; $16/14 students. Single tickets for the other four concerts are $18/16 general public; $16/14 senior citizens and Oberlin faculty/staff/alumni; $12/10 students.
GROUP DISCOUNTS FOR 10 OR MORE
Groups receive one free ticket for every 10 purchased. Groups of 10-25 receive a discount of 15% off the single ticket price, and groups of 26 or more receive 25% off the single ticket price. Call the Central Ticket Service at (440) 775-8169 for group reservations.
GIFT CERTIFICATES
Gift certificates may be purchased in any denomination for Artist Recital Series events. Call the Central Ticket Service at (440) 775-8169 for information.
