Sat, Oct 3
Payare Leads Strauss' A Hero's Life
A full orchestra at full cry produces a goosebump nothing else can — the moment a hundred musicians lean into the same enormous idea at once and the sound stops being music and turns into weather inside the room.
The season opens with exactly that. Rafael Payare, the wild-haired force who has made this orchestra one of the most exciting in the country, conducting Strauss' Ein Heldenleben — A Hero's Life — a forty-five-minute autobiographical epic that asks an orchestra to depict love, battle, and legacy without a single word being sung. Yefim Bronfman brings the grace of Mozart first, which is the correct order of operations: you want to be calm before that thing starts.
Sitting inside the newly reborn Jacobs Music Center for it is a reminder of why people have been filing into concert halls for two centuries.
Come if you want to feel a hundred people mean something at precisely the same instant.
A full orchestra at full cry produces a goosebump nothing else can — the moment a hundred musicians lean into the same enormous idea at once and the sound stops being music and turns into weather inside the room.
The season opens with exactly that. Rafael Payare, the wild-haired force who has made this orchestra one of the most exciting in the country, conducting Strauss' Ein Heldenleben — A Hero's Life — a forty-five-minute autobiographical epic that asks an orchestra to depict love, battle, and legacy without a single word being sung. Yefim Bronfman brings the grace of Mozart first, which is the correct order of operations: you want to be calm before that thing starts.
Sitting inside the newly reborn Jacobs Music Center for it is a reminder of why people have been filing into concert halls for two centuries.
Come if you want to feel a hundred people mean something at precisely the same instant.
The season opens with exactly that. Rafael Payare, the wild-haired force who has made this orchestra one of the most exciting in the country, conducting Strauss' Ein Heldenleben — A Hero's Life — a forty-five-minute autobiographical epic that asks an orchestra to depict love, battle, and legacy without a single word being sung. Yefim Bronfman brings the grace of Mozart first, which is the correct order of operations: you want to be calm before that thing starts.
Sitting inside the newly reborn Jacobs Music Center for it is a reminder of why people have been filing into concert halls for two centuries.
Come if you want to feel a hundred people mean something at precisely the same instant.
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A full orchestra at full cry produces a goosebump nothing else can — the moment a hundred musicians lean into the same enormous idea at once and the sound stops being music and turns into weather inside the room.
The season opens with exactly that. Rafael Payare, the wild-haired force who has made this orchestra one of the most exciting in the country, conducting Strauss' Ein Heldenleben — A Hero's Life — a forty-five-minute autobiographical epic that asks an orchestra to depict love, battle, and legacy without a single word being sung. Yefim Bronfman brings the grace of Mozart first, which is the correct order of operations: you want to be calm before that thing starts.
Sitting inside the newly reborn Jacobs Music Center for it is a reminder of why people have been filing into concert halls for two centuries.
Come if you want to feel a hundred people mean something at precisely the same instant.
The season opens with exactly that. Rafael Payare, the wild-haired force who has made this orchestra one of the most exciting in the country, conducting Strauss' Ein Heldenleben — A Hero's Life — a forty-five-minute autobiographical epic that asks an orchestra to depict love, battle, and legacy without a single word being sung. Yefim Bronfman brings the grace of Mozart first, which is the correct order of operations: you want to be calm before that thing starts.
Sitting inside the newly reborn Jacobs Music Center for it is a reminder of why people have been filing into concert halls for two centuries.
Come if you want to feel a hundred people mean something at precisely the same instant.
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