Featured Artists
Roderick Cox
Choong-Jin Chang
The nostalgic and hopeful beauty of Saint-Saëns's Symphony No. 3 featuring the church-like grandeur of the organ has astounded generations of audiences. Plus, hear a solo turn from the Orchestra’s own Principal Viola Choong-Jin Chang.
A musical thrill ride! Saint-Saëns’s glorious “Organ” Symphony is filled with emotion and grandeur, culminating in a finale that fairly lifts you out of your seat, with the mighty organ joining full orchestra in cascades of majestic melody.
This Saint-Saëns classic completes a program that follows one beautiful work after another:
Martinů’s Rhapsody-Concerto, for viola and orchestra showcases the burnished beauty of the oft-overlooked viola and the many gifts of our Principal Violist Choong-Jin Chang; and Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin was written for a romantic ballet deemed so racy by 1926 standards it was banned. Leading it all is a conductor hailed for eliciting performances of “full-bodied sound … transparent textures and thrilling abandon” (Bachtrack)—making this a concert to remember!
This concert is part of the Ellenberg Philadelphia Orchestra Soloist Spotlight Series.
Supported by The James and Agnes Kim Foundation, in partnership with the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Program
Bartók
Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
Martinů
Rhapsody-Concerto, for viola and orchestra
Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 (“Organ”)
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