Sorrell Conducts Baroque And Classical Masters
Blockbuster Film Classics
Tan Dun Conducts
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Sorrell Conducts Baroque And Classical Masters
THU , MAY 2 , 2024 , 8 PM STRATHMORE SAT , MAY 4 , 2024 , 8 PM MEYERHOFF SUN , MAY 5 , 2024 , 3 PM MEYERHOFF
Jeannette Sorrell , conductor Katherine Needleman , oboe
HANDEL Selections from Water Music Suite
BACH Concerto in F for Oboe and Strings GRÉTRY Zémire et Azor Ballet Suite MOZART Idomeneo Ballet Music ,
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The GRAMMY-winning conductor Jeannette Sorrell , hailed as “ lithe , glowing and elegant ” ( The New York Times ), delivers her keen insight into the music of the 18th century in this dazzling lineup featuring Mozart , Handel , and Bach in their full splendor . BSO Principal Oboe Katherine Needleman unearths a lost gem , reconstructing Bach ’ s original oboe version of a soaring harpsichord concerto . A suite by the long-overlooked André Grétry revives opera music that once took Europe by storm .
Featured soloist BSO Principal Oboe Katherine Needleman is the holder of the Robert H . and Ryda H . Levi Chair .
Blockbuster Film Classics
THU , MAY 9 , 2024 , 8 PM , STRATHMORE SAT , MAY 11 , 2024 , 8 PM , MEYERHOFF SUN , MAY 12 , 2024 , 3 PM , MEYERHOFF
Damon Gupton , conductor
From Lawrence of Arabia to E . T . the Extra- Terrestrial and Superman , Damon Gupton conducts an all-orchestral program with classic film scores from the Golden Age of Cinema to the present day .
Tan Dun Conducts
SAT , MAY 18 , 2024 , 8 PM STRATHMORE SUN , MAY 19 , 2024 , 3 PM MEYERHOFF
Tan Dun , conductor Kenneth Sham , chiba Gao Sijia , pipa Zhao Guanjie , xiquin Ling Kwan-leung , bili Loo Sze-wang , lusheng
STRAVINSKY Fireworks TAN DUN Five Muses of Dunhuang
( U . S . premiere ) STRAVINSKY Song of the Nightingale TAN DUN Passacaglia : Secret of
Wind and Birds
Writing music that straddles Chinese and Western traditions , Tan Dun is a boundary-breaking artist of limitless imagination and inclusivity , conjuring a soundscape that makes use of everything from ancient relics to smartphones . This first American performance of Five Muses of Dunhuang brings to life forgotten instruments painted centuries ago on devotional murals in Chinese caves . As a conductor , Tan has unique insights into another perceptive witness and recreator of human ritual , Stravinsky , especially in this rarely heard transcription from a Chinese-themed opera . Stravinsky , with his keen ear for real-life rituals , leans into the real splashy Fireworks and Chinese-themed opera transcription .
The BSO ’ s AAPI Festival is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts .
Tan Dun
Damon Gupton
Roger Mastroianni
Jeannette Sorrell
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