Marin Alsop Leads Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Frank
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Conductor Marin Alsop returns with a brilliant program featuring Mendelssohn’s poetic Violin Concerto, performed by the astonishing young violinist Randall Goosby, alongside Brahms’s intricate Variations on a Theme of Haydn and Gabriela Lena Frank’s evocative new composition, "Picaflor (Hummingbird)."
Like her mentor Leonard Bernstein, Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop is convinced that music has the power to change lives. She’s also enormously entertaining to watch, as you’ll see in this program that features Mendelssohn’s poetic, passionate Violin Concerto. Performing this bravura display of the instrument’s range and emotional power is the astonishing young violinist Randall Goosby, who “plays like an angel with nothing to prove” (Los Angeles Times).
The Mendelssohn is flanked by a pair of dazzling works: Brahms’s intricate Variations on a Theme of Haydn, whose contrapuntal shifts present a brilliant puzzle for the artists of the Orchestra to solve, and former Composer in Residence Gabriela Lena Frank’s Picaflor (Hummingbird), a vibrant new work that retells a traditional Peruvian creation myth.
Program
Frank
Picaflor (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission)
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto
Brahms
Variations on a Theme of Haydn