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Early works by great American composers, including Copland and Barber highlight this program that also features last year's Grammy Award winning Saxophone Concert, "Rush" by Kenneth Fuchs.
What makes a hero? We all know our favorite movie themes from our heroes and heroines. Our annual film concert celebrates all of them, from the obvious to the not so obvious. Characters and costumes will abound!
Beethoven and Tchaikovsky continue to push the envelope late into their careers. Two examples highlight this program, Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto opens while Beethoven's 6th Symphony broke ground as the first programmatic symphony written around a simple storyline.
Mozart gets all the press for his genius as a child. But every bit his equal was the brilliant Mendelssohn. We’ll hear music from both these two bright boys on one program. Audience favorite Steven Lin returns to present the evervescent G minor concerto by Mendelssohn, which ends with the happiest music you’ll hear in 2020.
The program will close with Mozart’s final symphony, nicknamed “Jupiter.” Never heard during his lifetime, we will recreate the masterwork from The Master Mozart.
Adrian Symphony Orchestra
Bruce Anthony Kiesling, conductor
Steven Lin, piano
Stravinsky's Petrouchka is known as the work when the master composer first broke into his own, distinct style. And Britten's "Young Person's Guide" is a favorite for listeners of every age group.
Haydn brought down the house at the premiere of his most popular work, The Creation. This stunning oratorio with soloists and choirs demonstrates Haydn's skill at using the orchestra for all manner of character and story. This is a not to be missed season ending event!
Leslie Ann Bradley, Soprano:
Zach Finkelstein, Tenor
Andrew Mahon, Bass
Our orchestra season in Adrian closes with two works that we’re inspired by visual works of art. Bernstein’s 2nd Symphony was inspired both by Auden’s long form poem “The Age of Anxiety,” which wrestles with the struggles of loneliness in the modern age. Bernstein felt the work was also inspired by Hopper’s “Nighthawks” painting, depicting three lonely souls in an otherwise deserted New York City bar, late in the evening. Scored for piano and orchestra, this work has everything, wandering and lost opening in the clarinets, a jazzy, relentless middle section for combo and percussion, which finally leads to solace and resolution in a glorious finale.
Act 2 brings out the big guns, with the orchestra showpiece, “Pictures at an Exhibition” in the dazzlingly colorful and evocative orchestration by Maurice Ravel. This cross-cultural collection of shorts wraps up with one of the most famous melodies in classical music, with “The Great Gate of Kiev” ringing in the end of the orchestra’s 2019-2020 season.
Artists:
Adrian Symphony Orchestra
Bruce Anthony Kiesling, conductor
Andrew Tyson, piano