Violinist Chee-Yun's flawless technique, dazzling tone, and compelling artistry have enraptured audiences on five continents. Now, she performs Édouard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, anchoring a program of dance and delight which includes flavors of Spain in Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat Suite. Composer Gabriela Lena Frank brings Latin American rhythms to the stage in three dances: “Jungle Jaunt” (listen for nods to Bernstein’s West Side Story), the melancholy adagio “Highland Harawi,” and, in Frank’s words, “a lighthearted tribute to the ‘mestizo’ or mixed-race music of the South American Pacific coast.”
Violinist Karen Gomyo, “…a first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality, brilliance and intensity” (Chicago Tribune), joins the MSO to perform Shostakovich’s expressive — at times nearly demonic — First Violin Concerto. William Eddins returns to lead this vivid program, which balances Shos...
Grammy Award®-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich, an artist of “scarcely believable commitment” (New York Times), performs Britten’s Violin Concerto, a beautiful and conflicted work penned as WWII was beginning — and as Britten was first falling in love. Shostakovich’s charged ballet Age of Gold...
American composers are on display, including African American trailblazer William Grant Still and Pulitzer Prize-winning Samuel Barber. Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody, often called “Rhapsody in Rivets” for its industrial New York noise, began as a film score and is rife with urban frenzy. Aaron Diehl...
