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Sarah Chang plays The Four Seasons with your RPO

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The Four Seasons

Event

Date:
September 28
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Event Category:

Venue

Location:
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre
Address:
26 Gibbs Street
Rochester, NY 14604 United States
Phone:
(585) 454-2100

Details

Sarah Chang plays The Four Seasons with your RPO

THE FOUR SEASONS

Thursday
September 28, 2023
7:30 PM

Saturday
September 30, 2023
8:00 PM

Who’s Who

Andreas Delfs, conductor
Sarah Chang, violin

Location

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre
Pre-concert talk with Andreas Delfs and Julia Figueras will start 1 hour before the show.

The Program

GITY RAZAZ Methuselah*
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”)

What to know before you go

 

Violin superstar Sarah Chang is “a musician of virtuosity and artistic insight,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. See her perform Vivaldi’s timeless and visceral “The Four Seasons,” music that blooms in perennial splendor. Plus, a newly commissioned piece by American-Iranian composer Gity Razaz. Her new work is conducted by Music Director Andreas Delfs along with Mendelssohn’s sunny “Italian” Symphony.

*Commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation

Sponsored by Lydia Palmer, Financial Representative | Alliance Advisory Group

RPO History

Sarah Chang performed twice with your RPO: January 1993 and October 2006 (in which she played The Four Seasons)!

This is the first time your RPO has performed a Gity Razaz composition in a Philharmonics Series concert.

Your RPO has performed The Four Seasons in a Philharmonics Series concert 5 times from 1988-2012.

  • Pinchas Zukerman conducted in March 1988 with himself as soloist
  • Christopher Seaman conducted in March 1997 with Mark Peskanoy as soloists and again in January 2002 with Ilya Kaler as soloist
  • JoAnn Falletta conducted in December 2012 with concertmaster Juliana Athayde as soloist
  • Michael Christie conducted in December 2017 with concertmaster Juliana Athayde as soloist

Your RPO has performed Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 “Italian” in a Philharmonics Series or Sunday Matinee concert 13 times from 1926-2013.

Where have I heard this?

The concerti that make up the Four Seasons are ubiquitous in pop culture. Many arrangements, covers, remixes, samples and parodies in music exist and we’ve listed only a few instances here:

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