Nashville Symphony
Another Fantastic Night Coming to the Schermerhorn
This upcoming weekend the Nashville symphony will be performing the next addition of their Classical Series featuring Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Recovering from the psychological damage and toll of the infamous premiere of his First Symphony, Rachmaninoff spent over three years before composing his next piece. Finally, between 1900 and 1901 he set pen to paper and wrote his Second Piano Concerto in C minor. The Nashville Symphony will be recreating the renowned and astounding debut the Concerto had in November 1901. Featuring conductor Michael Francis and the world-famous Natasha Paremski on piano, this performance will not be one to miss.
Alongside the concerto the Nashville Symphony will be playing Carlos Simon’s “The Block” and Antonin Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances Op. 72. The Block is a modern orchestral study on the artwork of Harlem renaissance painter Romare Bearden. The piece reflects on Bearden’s artistic renderings of African American culture in cities and in the rural United States. Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances are a collection of 16 pieces reflecting and celebrating Slavic culture, very similar to Brahms’ Hungarian Dances. They were originally composed for four hand piano but soon orchestrated for full orchestra due to a request from Dvorak’s publisher. Opus 72 includes the second half written in 1886 and has several movements based on traditional dances such as the Dumka (originally a Ukrainian genre appropriated by Slavic composers). The key difference between the Slavonic Dances and Hungarian Dances is that Brahms’ makes use of complete Hungarian folk melodies. Dvorak wrote new melodies and made use of rhythms based on Slavic folk songs. Both the Slavonic Dances and “The Block” will be fine additions to the Piano Concerto.
Overall these will be a couple of very exciting nights at the Schermerhorn this weekend. Performances are on Friday, November 8th and Saturday, November Ninth, both at 7:30 pm. Tickets are starting at $29 and seats are still available so hurry and get some before they run out. Tickets can be purchased at https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/18484! To learn more about other upcoming symphony performances, chamber performances and other related news be sure to check out our calendar and all things at https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/.
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My name is Brennan Wagner, I am currently a Music Industry student at Middle Tennessee State University and planning on pursuing Musicology in graduate school. I am from Nashville and have been playing saxophone for almost 10 years and love attending local concerts of all genres.
