Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: Classical to Neo-Classical, featuring bass soloist Xavier Foley
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- Xavier Foley, double bass
- Ruggero Allifranchini, violin
- Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Xavier Foley — For Justice and Peace (Xavier Foley, double bass)
Giovanni Bottesini — Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B minor (Ruggero Allifranchini, violin & Xavier Foley, double bass)
Fela Sowande — African Suite ("V. Akinla: Allegro non troppo")
Adolphus Hailstork — Symphony No. 1
Dynamic conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in a riveting program of music in dialogue with the Classical period, kicking off with the overture to Cimarosa's delightful opera The Secret Marriage. The virtuosic Xavier Foley showcases the vast capabilities of the bass in Bottesini's Double Bass Concerto No. 2, and shines as soloist alongside Concertmaster Ruggero Allifranchini in Foley's own double concerto, For Justice and Peace. In the second half, the finale from Fela Sowande's African Suite sets the stage for prolific composer Adolphus Hailstork's Symphony No. 1—a striking work that brings the influence of the Neo-Classical lineage together with nods to the Classical era.
The performances will be streamed live for FREE on the Hauser Digital Wall in the lobby of David Geffen Hall. Please join us!
This program will receive 2 performances: Friday, July 28, and Saturday, July 29, both at 7:30pm in Wu Tsai Theater.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at (212) 875-5456 or [email protected].
About Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/orchestra/about
About Xavier Foley, double bass
Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center PlazaNew York, NY 10023
United States
https://www.lincolncenter.org/venue/david-geffen-hall/s/Wu%20Tsai%20Theater