The season finale begins with Debussy’s impressionistic gem, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, featuring our outstanding principal flutist, Albert Brouwer. We then welcome Anna Polonsky back to the Flynn stage in a performance of Ravel’s jazzy Piano Concerto in G.
The composer said he “poured his thoughts into the exact mold he had dreamed” with this classically pure, but daringly innovative, work. Finally, a sublime closer for the season: Mahler’s sunny, bucolic Fourth Symphony.
The most modest and arguably the most beguiling of all Mahler’s symphonies, this cornucopia of melody reflects the composer’s nostalgia for the simplicity of peasant art and life. In the last movement, Mahler incorporates his song “The Heavenly Life,” with instructions to the soprano to sing “with childlike, bright expression.”
Details
Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT
Musically Speaking 7:00pm
Concert 8:00pm
Tickets: $16-$61 Flynntix.org
Website: vso.org
Source: Vermont Symphony Orchestra, April 4, 2014
United States