Adam Schoenberg: Go
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
Brahms: Violin Concerto
 
This program is festive and celebratory in a variety of ways.  Adam Schoenberg, a Grammy nominated composer, composed Go in 2014.  The piece is a high energy, groove oriented work that is inspired by the Kentucky blue landscape and world-renowned horse race tracks and farms.  Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony, originally intended to be a celebration of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, is a playful and vivid musical work with a neoclassical air.  Shostakovich himself considered it “a joyful little piece.”  Brahms wrote his first and only violin concerto for his good friend Joseph Joachim, a highly regarded violinist that the composer had known for over twenty years.  Violinist Barbora Kolárová will make her OSM debut in this virtuosic and heartfelt concerto.