« Friday, July 22
8:00 pm - Festival Orchestra Concert: Drama & Destiny @ Walk Festival Hall, Teton Village
$53, $10 Students
Festival Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Naoko Yoshino, harp
VERDI
La forza del destino: Overture
CURRIER
Traces for Harp and Orchestra (2009)
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique”
Osmo Vänskä, the Finnish Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra, returns to the Grand Teton Music Festival fresh off a recent tour with his home orchestra to Carnegie Hall where the New York Times complimented the conductor as “exacting and exuberant” -perfect words to describe his program here in the Tetons.
First, the concert begins a bit of dramatic flair with the overture to Verdi’s opera, La Forza del Destino. Then harpist Naoko Yoshino joins the orchestra for the North American premiere of Sebastien Currier’s Traces for Harp and Orchestra. A co-commission of Grand Teton Music Festival and the Berlin Philharmonic, the piece received its world premiere with Festival Music Director Donald Runnicles conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in December of 2009.
The immortal popular appeal of Tchaikovsky’s ravishing 6th Symphony – the Pathétique – is sure to send concertgoers home swooning.
Tickets: 307-733-1128
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