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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with pianist Garrick Ohlsson (Classical)

Thursday, September 26, 2024 7:30–9:00 PM
  • Location
    Weis Center for the Performing Arts, 217 - Weis Center Concert Hall
  • Description
    It's one thing for four players in a string quartet to lean in to the group sound and react spontaneously, but with 20 to 30 musicians together, the complexities and payoffs are magnified exponentially. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's catalog of recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch and other labels has grown to include more than 70 albums that stand as benchmarks of the chamber orchestra repertoire, including Haydn symphonies, Mozart concertos and 20th-century gems by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ravel and Bartók. Orpheus's performance will include Garrick Ohlsson, a trusted Mozart partner who has been hailed for his "muscular technique and the sensitivity and restraint with which he deploys it" by The New York Times, and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 (Jeunehomme). While Mozart melded styles from near and far to redefine the concerto genre, Brahms mined Handel (and Bach and Beethoven) to craft what he later called his "favorite work," the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, another piece to be performed. Composer and six-time Grammy-winner Billy Childs infuses classical traditions with his jazz roots in a new work for Orpheus.
  • Website
    https://calendar.bucknell.edu/weis-center/event/44868-orpheus-chamber-orchestra-with-pianist-garrick
  • Categories
    Open to the Public, Arts and Entertainment, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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