2010-2011
Season Opener:
Imagine
One World Symphony
Sung Jin Hong, Artistic Director and Conductor
One World Symphony Vocal Artists
Michael Crane, Pianist
John Lennon: Imagine (1971)*
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs (1948)
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat for left hand, Op. 53 (1931)
Olivier Messiaen: From Quartet for the End of Time (1941)**
Dmitri Shostakovich: Four Songs, Op. 86 (1951)***
Sung Jin Hong: Eye of the Storm for audience and symphony (2010, world premiere)
*World premiere orchestration (2010) by Andrew Struck-Marcell
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*World premiere orchestration (2010) by Sung Jin Hong
***World premiere orchestration (2010) by Eric Lemmon
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity
157 Montague Street
Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue (at West 28th Street)
Manhattan
$30 Students/Seniors with ID
$40 General
Net proceeds will benefit One World Symphony's Community Music Program — a program which enables students and parents who would otherwise not be in a position to afford classical concerts to obtain tickets to attend live performances during the One World Symphony season, such as our upcoming Halloween and Nordic Lights programs.
Imagine a world without countries or religions. Is John Lennon inviting us to share in his vision of Utopia or is he conveying personal self-discovery in a melodic song? Olivier Messiaen composed Quartet for the End of Time while he was a prisoner of war, overcoming his adversity through music. The work premiered at German prison camp Stalag VIII-A in 1941 to an audience of 5,000 prisoners. Disability and human creativity transcend limits in Sergei Prokofiev's rarely performed Piano Concerto No. 4, which was written for pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in WWI. Richard Strauss surveyed the destruction of his country after WWII and wrote his Four Last Songs, his final work, meditating on life, death, and the transfiguration into "the magic circle of the night." Dmitri Shostakovich's song cycle Four Songs, Op. 86 was written at the request of Yevgeni Dolmatovsky for a play that needed "aeronautical beacon," songs for a pilot to sing to help him navigate through the Alps. Eye of the Storm (태풍의 눈), Sung Jin Hong's world premiere composition inspired by traditional Korean drumming, pulsates with his personal experiences at the Demilitarized Zone. In the face of war, can miracles be born?
Performance length: 1 hour and 40 minutes with intermission
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity
157 Montague Street
Brooklyn Heights
Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue (at West 28th Street)
Manhattan
What's Next
Sept 17 & 19,
2010
