Music by classical music’s first composer of African descent, and Tchaikovsky’s searching “Fate” symphony conclude Lakeview Orchestra’s 2019/2020 season!
May 5, 2020 | 7:30PM
Athenaeum Theatre
SUBSCRIBER APPRECIATION NIGHT
Gregory Hughes
Artistic Director
Anton Bruckner’s 8th Symphony clocks in at nearly eighty minutes in length — the same amount of time usually taken up by an overture, concerto, and symphony combined! The work is a full concert of music in and of itself.
The premiere of the 8th Symphony was cancelled no less than three times because the work was deemed “too difficult” by Felix Weingartner, the young conductor charged with preparing the piece. In the end, Bruckner had to secure the far-more-experienced conductor Hans Richter and the venerable players of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra before the symphony was finally given its first public performance in 1892!
Gregory Hughes conductor
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8
This concert will last approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. There will be no intermission.
March 24, 2020 | 7:30PM
Athenaeum Theatre
Ricardo Castañeda
Jennifer Higdon
Featured Composer
Johannes Brahms’ Hungarian Dances are his most popular (and, in his lifetime, most profitable) compositions.
Pulitzer- and Grammy-winner Jennifer Higdon regards her Oboe Concerto as one of her favorite compositions! She wrote: "I have always thought of the oboe as being a most majestic instrument, and it was a pleasure to be able to create a work that would highlight its beauty and grace."
Music critics in early 20th-century Paris ended up having a pretty poor track record when it came to measuring the value of contemporary music (think the maligned premiere of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, for example). Claude Debussy’s La mer was premiered in 1905 and panned by the press as “lacking in grandeur” and “often unpleasant.” Now, La mer is regarded as “one of the supreme achievements in symphonic literature.”
Gregory Hughes conductor
Ricardo Castañeda oboe
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 5, and 6
HIGDON: Oboe Concerto
DEBUSSY: La mer
This concert was last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, with intermission.
“Music is life, and like life, inextinguishable!”
