Featured Artists
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Music and Artistic Director
Emanuel Ax
Piano
On November 4, experience the lyrical brilliance of GRAMMY® Award–winning American classical pianist Emanuel Ax as he joins forces with Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra for a performance of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. From the stormy opening movement to the dazzling energy of the finale, this is the perfect showcase for this beloved pianist’s “sublime ... strength and warmth of tone” (Limelight).
Brahms’s romantic Third Symphony and William Grant Still’s stunningly poetic Wood Notes round out the rest of this brilliant program with picturesque scenes of nature.
Program
William Grant Still
Wood Notes
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3
Approximate Duration
Including intermission
2 hours
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill