Michael Francis, conductor
Mitchell Kuhn, oboe
Ahmed Alabaca: Across the Calm Waters of Heaven – A Piece for Peace
Tomaso Albinoni: Concerto for Oboe No. 2
Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight
Vaughan Williams: Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Barber: Adagio for Strings
After living in a pandemic for a year, you deserve these precious moments of beauty and peace, featuring Barber’s Adagio for Strings, one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music in the world, famously featured in the stirring 1986 Vietnam war film Platoon. Michael Francis starts the concert with Ahmed Alabaca’s Across the Calm Waters of Heaven – A Piece for Peace, written after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., in 2015, that “captures the inextinguishable spark of human goodness.” Albinoni’s lovely Concerto for Oboe No. 2 features soloist Mitchell Kuhn. In On the Nature of Daylight, composer Max Richter creates a “sense of luminosity and brightness.”
PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION: This concert of serene music was created as a "pause button," to reflect on the past 12 months as we move forward with hope. Music Director Michael Francis talks about how he put the program together with General Manager Ed Parsons. Click here to watch.
PROGRAM NOTES: Read the program notes, authored by Kurt Loft, by clicking here.
ON THE BLOG: Composer Ahmed Alabaca uses music to find “peace, reassurance and healing,” even in devastating events. Click here to read more.
LIVE STREAM: For information about the live stream event, click here.
COVID-19 INFORMATION: For a video and guide on how we are keeping each other safe in the concert hall, click here.
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