JoAnn Falletta conducts Roberto Sierra, Tchaikovsky, and Respighi featuring Joshua Bell, violin
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
In her BSO debut, Grammy Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta is joined by violinist Joshua Bell, a Tanglewood mainstay since 1989, performing Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto. In the symphonic poems Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi sought to capture the beauty of his country’s culture and landscape with colorful orchestral cityscapes evoking some of Rome’s most prominent features at different times of day. Opening the concert is the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra’s Fandangos, an engaging, exploratory riff on one of the most characteristic Spanish dance forms. Sierra blends a classical approach with elements of Afro-Caribbean, South American, Central American, and Spanish musical traditions.
Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.
Gates open at 5:30pm
Performance Details
Aug 6, 2022, 8:00pm EDT
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Program Notes & Works
Fandangos
Roberto Sierra’s Fandangos is a postmodern rumination on two particular fandangos.
Violin Concerto in D
Tchaikovsky finally managed to arrange the premiere in far-away Boston—so that if it were a flop, he would not have to be present to hear it himself.
Fountains of Rome
In this symphonic poem, the composer has endeavored to give expression to the sentiments and vision suggested to him by four of Rome’s fountains.
Pines of Rome
What brought Respighi most of the fame and fortune he so thoroughly enjoyed was his trilogy of Roman symphonic poems.
