The Orchestra Now Presents
Elgar's Enigma Variations
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
8:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
8:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Benjamin Britten, Four Sea Interludes from Peter GrimesGustav Mahler, Adagio from Symphony No. 10, Harold Farberman, conductor
William Walton, Cello Concerto
Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations
In its second season, The Orchestra Now (TŌN) continues its mission to create unique concert experiences for audiences of great orchestral music of the past and present. This performance features interludes from Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, set in the English seaside. Harold Farberman, founder and artistic director of the Bard College Conductor's Institute, conducts Gustav Mahler's impassioned and sprawling Adagio from Symphony No, 10. Elgar's Enigma Variations caught hold of the Victorian imagination on two levels: for its dedication ("to my friend pictured within"), which invited listeners to equate the work with a photograph album, and by declaring the theme an "enigma" which tapped into the Victorian obsession with puzzles and wordplay. John Belk '17 plays William Walton's mysterious Cello Concerto. Walton revised the ending after the work's premiere, but the cellist died before it could be performed.
Listen to recordings of these compositions on The Orchestra Now’s website.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=131289.
Time: 8:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Ticket Information: Tickets: $25–35.Free to Bard students: call 845-758-7900 to reserve tickets.
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