What’s the Frequency?
WESTCHESTER PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS “WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY?”
October 27th, 3:00 pm, Purchase Performing Arts Center
(White Plains, New York) — The Westchester Philharmonic’s 42nd season opens on Sunday, October 27, 3:00 pm at the Purchase Performing Arts Center with “What’s the Frequency?”
For the famous, classical works on this program, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 5, it’s A major and B-flat major, a small half-step difference in the scale. But for the little-known Serenade by mid-century American composer George Antheil, he did not divulge! Antheil and actress Hedy Lamarr weren’t just artists, they were also mathematicians and scientists, and during World War II they teamed up to invent an encryption system using musical frequencies that would help guide Allied torpedoes against Nazi U-boats. The technology they created became the basis for nearly all of our telecommunications today.
Conductor Danail Rachev returns to the podium, with violinist Bella Hristova and the virtuoso musicians of the Westchester Philharmonic.
All tickets are $45; half-price for young people ages 6 – 16. Some fees apply.
For tickets and information go to westchesterphil.org, or call the PAC Box Office at 914-251-6200. The box office will open at noon on the day of the performance.
Concert at The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York.
About Westchester Philharmonic
Now in its 42nd season, the Westchester Philharmonic is the oldest, continuously running professional symphony orchestra and largest performing arts organization of any kind in Westchester County. The Philharmonic’s main stage concert series makes its home at the Purchase Performing Arts Center, with outdoor concerts, chamber concerts, children’s programs, and special events throughout the area, attracting savvy music-lovers from Rockland, Bergen, Fairfield, and Putnam counties, New York City, and beyond. Renowned artists who have performed with the Phil include Joshua Bell, Julia Bullock, Barbara Cook, Jeremy Denk, Branford Marsalis, Midori, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelly O’Hara, Garrick Ohlsson, Itzhak Perlman, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Gil Shaham, Isaac Stern, and André Watts. Among the many new works commissioned and premiered by the Westchester Philharmonic is Melinda Wagner’s Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. Newly commissioned works by award-winning composers Christopher Theofanidis, David Ludwig, and Jed Feuer debuted in 2014, 2016, and 2018, respectively. The Westchester Philharmonic has a long history of supporting artists of diverse backgrounds. Many of the composers whose works have been commissioned or premiered with the Philharmonic come from diverse backgrounds and/or are women. Over the past ten seasons the Phil has engaged 30 conductors or guest soloists of African-American, Hispanic, and Asian backgrounds. Women conductors and composers have appeared in eight of the last ten seasons. The orchestra is comprised of the finest professional free-lance musicians from around the greater metropolitan area, who also perform regularly with the New York City Ballet, Orchestra St. Luke’s, Orpheus, Mostly Mozart, and for many Broadway shows. Members of the Phil hold faculty positions at Juilliard, Mannes, Manhattan School of Music, Purchase Conservatory, Vassar and Bard Colleges, and at local public schools.
The Philharmonic is the most accomplished symphony orchestra in the northern suburbs of New York. The fully-professional orchestra is led by Principal Conductors Jaime Laredo and Ted Sperling.