THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
March 24, 2020 | 7:30PM
Athenaeum Theatre
What’s Interesting
About This Concert
Ricardo Castañeda
Jennifer Higdon
Featured Composer
Johannes Brahms’ Hungarian Dances are his most popular (and, in his lifetime, most profitable) compositions.
Pulitzer- and Grammy-winner Jennifer Higdon regards her Oboe Concerto as one of her favorite compositions! She wrote: "I have always thought of the oboe as being a most majestic instrument, and it was a pleasure to be able to create a work that would highlight its beauty and grace."
Music critics in early 20th-century Paris ended up having a pretty poor track record when it came to measuring the value of contemporary music (think the maligned premiere of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, for example). Claude Debussy’s La mer was premiered in 1905 and panned by the press as “lacking in grandeur” and “often unpleasant.” Now, La mer is regarded as “one of the supreme achievements in symphonic literature.”
The Program
Gregory Hughes conductor
Ricardo Castañeda oboe
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 5, and 6
HIGDON: Oboe Concerto
DEBUSSY: La mer
This concert was last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, with intermission.