Description
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Purcell (arr. Steven Stuckey): Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Barber: Symphony No. 1
Zachary Schwartzman conductor
Ryan Michki tenor
The Orchestra Now Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The concert opens with Strauss’s beloved tone poem Don Juan. Then tenor Ryan Michki, a winner of the 2024 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, performs Vaughan Williams’ emotional English song cycle On Wenlock Edge, written after the composer had spent three months studying with Maurice Ravel in Paris. Also on the program are Steven Stuckey’s arrangement of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary, originally composed 330 years ago in 1695, and Samuel Barber’s epic and expansive Symphony No. 1 in One Movement.
Advance RSVP requested
Theatre
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
