Redwood Symphony - Two Fifths, Beethoven and Shostakovich

When
Sat May 28, 2016
Where
Cañada College
Time
Concert at 8 p.m. Pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m.
Cost
$10 - $30
Tags
Music, Classical Music

Description

Redwood Symphony will wrap up its regular season May 28 with Two Fifths, a concert featuring the Fifth Symphonies of both Beethoven and Shostakovich as well as Stravinsky's Scherzo a la Russe.

The concert, under the baton of Maestro Eric Kujawsky, will begin at 8 p.m. in the Main Theater of Cañada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony provided a template for many symphonic works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and many other composers in which tragedy depicted in the early movements is ultimately overcome by triumph in the final movement.

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony turns this premise upside down with its smuggled-in message of subversion against the Soviet state — the very opposite of the work's outwardly optimistic stance! The concert represents a rare opportunity to hear this shatteringly emotional work along with the "original" Fifth.

Redwood Symphony will perform the West Coast premiere of Gustav Mahler's 'retouched' version of the Beethoven, in which some of the composer's orchestrations are clarified and made more effective.

free for children under 18 accompanied by an adult
free, ample parking

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Location

  1. Cañada College
    4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA