Featured Artists
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Juliette Kang
The Orchestra performs Stravinsky’s career-launching Firebird ballet score in its entirety, alongside Béla Bartók’s brooding and mysterious Second Violin Concerto, a poignant farewell to his homeland, featuring First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang.
As brilliantly colored as the imagined plumage of its namesake mythical creature, The Firebird ballet score launched Igor Stravinsky’s career; the cheering audience at its Paris premiere included such luminaries as Marcel Proust, Sarah Bernhardt and Claude Debussy.
Alongside this richly hued pair of masterworks you’ll hear Béla Bartók’s brooding, mysterious Second Violin Concerto, a beautiful farewell to his homeland, written in dark days as Nazi fervor engulfed his beloved Hungary.
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.
These concerts are part of the Ellenberg Philadelphia Orchestra Soloist Spotlight Series.
Program
Assiginaak
Eko-Bmijwang (As Long in Time as the River Flows)
Bartók
Violin Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky
The Firebird (complete ballet)
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