![]() Other concertos will include Dvorak’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Nov. 14-15), which had its 1875 debut at the Music Hall in Boston. On tap as well is Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 23-25), which premiered in New York in 1909. ![]() The yearlong focus on the concerto in America will include works either written by Americans or first performed in this country, such as Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. “There are about 25, and the Brahms is very nice.” “I keep a list of what pieces are good for opening nights,” Slatkin says. But Bolcom, who taught composition at the University of Michigan until 2008, got sly revenge by inserting into the “Overture” what an amused Slatikin calls “a minor fragment from Chopin’s Funeral March.”Ĭapping the program will be Brahms’ Symphony No. “I told Bill that I wanted a piece under five minutes, with no reference to the song ‘Happy Birthday,’ ” Slatkin says. ![]() ![]() Chang will perform Barber’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.Īlso on the program this weekend are two short pieces: Ron Nelson’s “Sarabande for Katharine in April” and a humorous piece by the Pulitzer Pprize winner William Bolcom commissioned especially for Leonard Slatkin’s 70th birthday, “Circus Overture,” which premiered this summer at the Tanglewood Festival. Things kick off Friday with “The Virtuosity of Sarah Chang,” a program featuring the acclaimed violinist, whose last visit to the DSO was scotched by the 2010-2011 strike. A three-week Tchaikovsky Festival, a concert presentation of Puccini’s “Tosca” and a yearlong salute to the concerto in America promise a rich and stimulating classical season at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. ![]()
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