Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
When:
Saturday, December 7, 2024
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM CT
Where: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Tickets are $8 for the general public and $5 for students with valid ID.
Contact:
Concert Management Office
(847) 467-4000
Group: Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
Donald Schleicher, conductor; Natalia Warthen, saxophone (Northwestern Concerto Competition winner)
The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra's second performance of the season opens with the Overture to Carl Maria von Weber's Oberon, the opera which may have inspired Felix Mendelssohn in his own overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream. Concerto Competition winner Natalia Warthen is the featured soloist in Paul Creston's Concerto for Alto Saxophone. Creston served as accompanist to saxophonist Cecil Leeson during the 1930s, and dedicated the virtuosic showcase to him. Rounding out the program is Sergei Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, a work the composer himself described as "a symphony on the greatness of the human soul." The symphony was premiered in Moscow in January 1945, only days after news arrived of a Soviet victory over the Germany army on the Vistula River.
Carl Maria von Weber, Oberon Overture
Paul Creston, Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Op. 26
Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100