TCHAIKOVSKY'S SIXTH SYMPHONY "PATHÉTIQUE"

Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 8:00 P.M.
Flato Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts

Written years after the original opera’s fruition, Verdi’s Overture to La forza del destino is a gripping and illustrative prelude that is recurrently performed autonomously in concert halls. Composed during the turbulent years of the early twentieth century, Prokofiev’s output was the most prolific as he penned his wildly dreamy and spirited Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra. Premiered only days before Tchaikovsky’s sudden death, makes his final Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique”, a truly desperately mournful yet awe-inspiring requiem.

Verdi, Overture to La forza del destino                                                          Notes | Listen
Prokofiev, Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1, Op. 19                            Notes | Listen
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, Op. 74 “Pathétique”                                      Notes | Listen                                    
Kristian Alexander | conductor     
Aaron Schwebel | violinist  
Michael Berec | host    
  
7:15 p.m.   Prélude (pre-concert recital) with Rodney Gray (KSO Principal Flutist)
7:30 p.m.   Pre-concert talk in the foyer of Markham Theatre with Joanna Augustine Ng (KSO Assistant Conductor)
                   Intermission discussion with Michael Berec and Aaron Schwebel
                   Post-concert complimentary glass of Champagne