Brahms 4: Jan. 9

Hilliard Lyons Classics series
Saturday, January 9 | 8pm | Brown Theatre
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Program
Richard Strauss
Serenade in E-Flat Major

Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)

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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4

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The theme to this year’s season is “The Virtuoso Orchestra,” and our first program of the New Year is designed, beautifully, to illustrate the point.

Maestro Jason Weinberger leads a “progressive” program beginning with Strauss’ late Romantic Serenade for winds, immediately followed by Schoenberg’s heartbreakingly gorgeous and evocative Verklärte Nacht, orchestrated purely for string orchestra. Both works define their genres and have become standard bearers for the form.

In conclusion, Weinberger brings both groups together for the second half of the performance. This program is a chance for the Louisville Orchestra musicians to flex their muscles, first in isolation, then, for the final podium pose, in glorious harmony in Brahms’ fourth symphony.

The intimacy of the Brown Theater provides the perfect environment for audiences to experience this progressive affair surrounded by the perfection of compositions and supple sound of the Louisville Orchestra musicians.