Featured Artists
Marin Alsop
Randall Goosby
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 Mozart’s charming Violin Concerto No. 3. Performing this bravura display of the instrument’s range is the astonishing young violinist Randall Goosby, who “plays like an angel with nothing to prove” (Los Angeles Times).
The Mozart 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 composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s Picaflor (Hummingbird), a vibrant new work that retells a traditional Peruvian creation myth.
Program
Frank
Picaflor: A Future Myth
Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 3
Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn