Festival Orchestra: Weilerstein Plays Dvorák
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Klein Music Tent
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960 North 3rd Street
Aspen, CO 81611
Aspen, CO 81611
This concert will be carried live on Aspen Public Radio! Tune in 91.5FM and 88.9FM or at aspenpublicradio.org.
Thrilling audiences with her technical brilliance and passionate, committed performances, AMFS alumna Alisa Weilerstein is the cello superstar of her generation. Hear her in Dvořák’s ravishing Cello Concerto, regarded as one of the greatest of all concertos for its quickly shifting moods and quieter, reflective moments.
The program opens with William Grant Still’s Darker America, his first orchestral work. The composer intended the piece to represent “the triumph of African-Americans over their sorrows through fervent prayer.” Another work memorializing spiritual triumph concludes the concert. Prokofiev composed his Fifth Symphony in 1944, writing that it was, “a hymn to free and happy Man, to his mighty powers, and his pure and noble spirit.”
Thrilling audiences with her technical brilliance and passionate, committed performances, AMFS alumna Alisa Weilerstein is the cello superstar of her generation. Hear her in Dvořák’s ravishing Cello Concerto, regarded as one of the greatest of all concertos for its quickly shifting moods and quieter, reflective moments.
The program opens with William Grant Still’s Darker America, his first orchestral work. The composer intended the piece to represent “the triumph of African-Americans over their sorrows through fervent prayer.” Another work memorializing spiritual triumph concludes the concert. Prokofiev composed his Fifth Symphony in 1944, writing that it was, “a hymn to free and happy Man, to his mighty powers, and his pure and noble spirit.”
Rafael Payare, charismatic music director of Canada’s Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and California’s San Diego Symphony, conducts.
Be inspired by this stirring concert and the consummate artistry of Alisa Weilerstein!
STILL: Darker America
DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor, B. 191, op. 104
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PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, op. 100
Be inspired by this stirring concert and the consummate artistry of Alisa Weilerstein!
STILL: Darker America
DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor, B. 191, op. 104
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PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, op. 100
