Beethoven & Kahane: Nature's Forces with the Oregon Symphony

Oregon Symphony

Friday, April 11, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)

Smith Auditorium at Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States

$37-$52

David Danzmayr, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastorale"
Gabriel Kahane — Talent & Phoenix (world premiere)

With its depictions of babbling brooks, bird calls, and an electrifying thunderstorm, Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony evokes the beauty of the Austrian countryside with cinematic clarity. And in Talent & Phoenix, Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane reflects on the devastating 2020 Almeda Fire in Southern Oregon to ask: "How is memory remade, and community rebuilt, when the buildings that housed our past are reduced to ash?"

4 performances:
- Friday, April 11 at Smith Auditorium in Salem
- Saturday, April 12 – Monday, April 14 at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland