Bellingham Symphony Orchestra: In Bloom
$15-$52 (youth/student discounts available, see event description)
- Einav Yarden, piano
Viktor Ullmann — Piano Concerto, Op. 25
Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Get ready to welcome spring with an afternoon at the Symphony, featuring pianist Einav Yarden!
This lush, romantic program features works by Mahler, Ullmann, and Brahms—all brilliant composers who planted seeds for those who came after them, Mahler continuing on the work of Brahms and Ullmann continuing on the work of Mahler until his untimely death in Auschwitz in 1944. What an immeasurable impact might Ullmann have continued to have on the art form if not for his loss?
First, we present Gustav Mahler's Blumine, which translates as "flower." Originally written in 1884 as incidental music for Joseph Victor von Scheffel's dramatic poem Der Trompeter von Säckingen, Blumine was briefly included as the second movement in Mahler's First Symphony before he discarded it. Blumine is scored for a small orchestra, and features a gentle trumpet solo.
Next, Israeli pianist Einav Yarden joins the orchestra for Viktor Ullmann's only Piano Concerto. Praised for her "exceptionally vivid playing" and "sense of immense majesty, tempered by gentleness and quiet grace" (The Washington Post), Yarden was a longtime student of the late renowned pianist Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory. Composed in 1939, Ullmann's Piano Concerto is one of a small selection of his surviving works from the 1920s and 30s among what is presumed to have been a large lost catalog.
Finally, the program concludes with Brahms' Second Symphony. Composed in the summer of 1877 at a lakeside village in Austria, the symphony has a bright, idyllic feel intermixed with a touch of melancholy, mirroring the existence of beauty and joy in an otherwise imperfect world.
A Pre-Concert Lecture about the program will take place at 2:15pm in the Walton Theatre. Doors open at 2pm and seating is limited, so please plan accordingly. These lectures are free for ticket-holders.
This concert qualifies for Classical Kids, Take-A-Teen, and Student Rush ticket discounts. Visit https://www.bellinghamsymphony.org/visit-us/ticket-discounts to learn more