THE INEXTINGUISHABLE SYMPHONY
VILLA-LOBOS SINFONIETTA
February 11, 2020 | 7:30PM
Athenaeum Theatre
What’s Interesting
About This Concert
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Featured Composer
William Tan
Winner of the 2020 Student Concerto Competition
Heitor Villa-Lobos is considered the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music! He wrote more than two thousand pieces during his lifetime, and often combined European classical styles with Brazilian folk music (think tangos turned into a symphony).
Danish composer Carl Nielsen wrote his Fourth Symphony during the early years of World War I, describing the symphony saying “Music is life, and like life, inextinguishable!” The work is notable for its dueling sets of timpani (set on opposite sides of the stage) in something of a battle between order and chaos.
The Program
Josh Mather conductor
William Tan Winner of the 2020 Student Concerto Competition
VILLA-LOBOS: Sinfonietta
DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor
NIELSEN: Symphony No. 4 (“The Inextinguishable”)
This concert will last approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, with intermission.
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