NSO – Beethoven & American Masters: George Walker & Beethoven's Seventh/Eighth Symphonies

National Symphony Orchestra

Friday, May 12, 2023 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EDT)

Concert Hall at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, United States

$29-$98 ($15-$98 wheelchair/companion)

Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
George Walker — Sinfonia No. 5 "Visions"
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

The NSO presents the compact, complex final sinfonia by George Walker (1922–2018), a Washington, D.C. native and the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Bold and uncompromising, Sinfonia No. 5, "Visions," crowns a long career in which Dr. Walker produced more than 90 groundbreaking works. Gianandrea Noseda bookends the program with two glorious Beethoven symphonies: the buoyant, humorous Eighth and the relentlessly rhythmic Seventh.