NY Phil: Slatkin Conducts Shostakovich's Fifth

New York Philharmonic

Saturday, March 29, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EDT)

Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, United States

$68-$228

Timothy McAllister, saxophones
Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Cindy McTee — Double Play
John Corigliano — Triathlon (NY premiere)
Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

Shostakovich's Fifth journeys from haunting depths to its famously ambiguous finale. Saxophone virtuoso Timothy McAllister is the soloist in John Corigliano's Triathlon, which was written for him. With movements centered on soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones, the piece requires—in the composer's words—"three feats of high athletic prowess." Cindy McTee's Double Play is inspired by mid-20th-century big-band jazz.

Runs Mar. 26-29.