Auburn Symphony: Pure Resonance
$40 ($32 senior, $12 student)
- Rachell Ellen Wong, vioiln
Jean Sibelius — Finlandia, Op. 26
Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
Rachell Ellen Wong, a violin virtuoso and recipient of a prestigious 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, headlines this program performing one of her favorites, Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Sibelius’s Finlandia is a beloved work with universal appeal though it was written during a particular time to rouse patriotism against Russian censorship restrictions. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, widely regarded as his finest, depicts both the struggle of the Stalin regime and the triumph at its end.
Dr. Gwynne Kuhner Brown joins us again this year for an enlightening discussion of the music. Dr. Brown, Professor of Music at the University of Puget Sound, has presented her scholarship at national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, at the African American Art Song Alliance. Her talk begins at 1:30pm.
All programming subject to change.