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Music Director Laureate Carlos Kalmar leads a program exploring the invincibility of the human spirit. Strauss's songs of farewell, with their radiant lyricism, offer hope and solace in the autumn of life, while Nielsen's thrilling Fourth Symphony looks to transcend the anguish of World War I, culminating in a spectacular duel for two timpanists.
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Seeger: Andante for Strings
Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable”
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Maeve Höglund, Soprano
Oregon Symphony
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Principal Guest Conductor Jun Märkl explores the interplay of memory and music in poignant works by Ravel and Dutilleux that trace the devastating impact of two world wars on European culture. Concertmaster Sarah Kwak performs Prokofiev's shimmering, dreamlike Violin Concerto No. 1, which contrasts fairytale lightness with brazen savagery.
Ideas of oppression and resilience are woven throughout Wagner's rarely heard Rienzi Overture and Mendelssohn's monumental "Reformation" Symphony, a heartfelt work inspired by the composer's Protestant faith. Visionary pianist-composer Gabriela Montero showcases her astonishing powers in Babel, a portrait of her experience as a human rights activist.
