Sun, Mar 26
|Second Church in Newton
Concertos for One and All
Coming from Boston Festival Orchestra, Alyssa Wang makes her Pro Arte debut in a program featuring everyone on the stage. Violinist Steven Copes returns for a concert where all voices are equal and all parts share in the spotlight.
Time & Location
Mar 26, 2023, 3:00 PM
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton, MA 02465, USA
About the event
Concertos for One and All
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Alyssa Wang, conductor
Steven Copes, violin
PROGRAM
BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77
ZIPORYN Frog's Eye
BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra
Pro Arte welcomes conductor Alyssa Wang and violinist Steven Copes, Concertmaster of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, for a concert of riveting works, both warmly familiar and boldly inventive. In Frog’s Eye, the contemporary composer Evan Ziporyn meticulously layers musical lines to open a vista bustling with life. The Concerto for string orchestra by the twentieth-century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz is a carefully crafted work of breathtaking force. Johannes Brahms composed his majestic Violin Concerto for the violinist Joseph Joachim, a close friend and collaborator. Throughout the stately opening movement, the lyrical Adagio, and the fiery finale, Brahms’s music is characteristically expressive, heartfelt, and dramatic.