Festival Orchestra: Bloch and Tchaikovsky

Enrique Mazzola, conductor
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello

program

Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino

Bloch: Schelomo

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

Witness the GTMF debut of Chicago Lyric Opera Music Director Enrique Mazzola. After Verdi’s dramatic statement on the power of fate and Bloch’s poetic invocation of King Solomon performed by German-French cellist Nicolas Alstaedt, wetraverse the turbulent emotional landscape of Tchaikovsky’s final symphony. Did he foresee his own abrupt demise with this score?
Join us for a pre-concert talk at 5 PM with Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich in the Barbara Furrer Goodman Memorial Garden near Walk Festival Hall’s north entrance. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.

Cost : $40 - $85, children/students $5