Sun, Jan 08
|Sanders Theatre
Volcanic! Non-subscription concert
Pro Arte returns to Sanders Theatre in Cambridge for a special concert of earth-moving music. Conductor Emerita Gisèle Ben-Dor conducts Carreño and Beethoven, and Boston Symphony violin Lucia Lin gives a special encore performance of Jofre's new concerto Mauna Loa.
Time & Location
Jan 08, 2023, 3:00 PM
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
About the event
CONCERT 2: Volcanic!
Sunday, January 8, 2023
Gisèle Ben-Dor, conductor
Lucia Lin, violin
PROGRAM
CARREÑO Un Bal en Rêve
BEETHOVEN Octet for Winds
JOFRE Mauna Loa for violin and strings
CARREÑO Serenade for Strings
CARREÑO Mi Teresita
Conductor Emerita Gisèle Ben-Dor returns to lead Pro Arte in a sweeping program featuring American violinist Lucia Lin—a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a professor at Boston University. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Octet is a playful suite in the tradition of wind band music popular in Austria at the time. A century later, the Venezuelan-American composer Teresa Carreño wrote a Romantic take on the Classical suite during a stay in the Alps. Her intoxicating Serenade for strings conveys all the charm of the Austrian lakeside village where it was written. In the music of the contemporary composer J.P. Jofre, one hears the tango of his native Argentina alongside the jazz of New York City, where he now lives. His violin concerto Mauna Loa, co-commissioned by Lucia Lin, is a vibrant work capturing the immense power of the world’s largest active volcano.
Read the reviews from Boston Musical Intelligencer and Boston Classical Review.