Shostakovich 10: Oct. 15 & 17

Treyton Oak Towers Coffee series

Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 10:30am | Whitney Hall
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Hilliard Lyons Classics series
Saturday, October 17, 2009 | 8pm | Whitney Hall
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Program

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 82 (“The Bear”)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10

The Louisville Orchestra’s October performances highlight the Orchestra as the engine of change – expressing the indisputable evolution of orchestral compositional technique that transpired in just over 160 years.

Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony was the composer’s first symphonic work since his denunciation in 1948 by the Communist Party. It is a true powerhouse of rhythmic drive, lyrical invention and deep introspection and hasn’t been performed in Louisville for more than a decade. In it, the composer embedded musical references to Pushkin, Mahler and even a student with whom he was in love.

Paired with Haydn’s streamlined and silky symphony (the first of his “Paris” symphonies and coincidentally “bearing” the name of the nationalistic symbol of Russia), this concert series is sure to delight and move listeners in ways both expected and unimaginable.

Currently in his ninth season as Music Director of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Hege is widely recognized as one of America’s finest young conductors. He makes his return to Louisville in this special program engineered to showcase both the elegance and sheer virtuosity of our “home town team.”