The Columbia University Orchestra

The Exploration of Sound and Space

Kaija Saariaho - Lumière et pesanteur

Gustav Mahler - Symphony #10 in F-sharp major

I. Adagio

II. Purgatorio

Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor

The Columbia University Orchestra with music director and conductor Jeffrey Milarsky returns to Symphony Space for their Fall concert: The Exploration of Sound and Space. The program opens with Lumière et pesanteur composed by Kaija Saariaho who tactfully explores simple melodies and turns them into exotic and malleable textures. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony #10 is a statement of past and future—desperately clinging to traditional romanticism while pressing toward the future. The concert concludes with Edward Elgar’s deeply personal work Enigma Variations which expresses his elegantly poetic and powerful personality through a series of dedicated variations.

This event is free, general admission, and open to the public.