Alan Gilbert conducts Sibelius, Debussy and Adams featuring violinist Leila Josefowicz
When:
Friday, Mar 02, 2018 1:30p -
3:30p
Where:
Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-4511
Admission:
$32
Categories:
Art, Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/88647
Former New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert leads a recent work by California-based composer John Adams, his Scheherezade.2, a work composed for violinist Leila Josefowicz. Adams's four-movement work is a 21st-century response to the Arabian Nights paralleling Rimsky-Korsakov's 1888 symphonic score. Opening the program is Jean Siblelius's atmospheric tone poem En Saga ("A Saga"), which features many of the composer's characteristic touches of orchestration and folk-music-influenced melody. Claude Debussy's Jeux ("Games"), was enormously influential for later composers in its luminous and nuanced orchestration.