The DANCE
Saturday, May 7 at 8:00 pm
Sunday May 8 at 3:00 pm
Marc Taddei, conductor
Ruth Crawford Seeger, Music for Small Orchestra
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 Soloist David Fung
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Ruth Crawford Seeger, ultramodernist composer and matriarch of the folk-revival Seeger family, composed in radically different styles. Music for Small Orchestra came from her early, avant-garde period. David Fung, who performed with VSO in 2018 to great acclaim, returns to play Tchaikovsky’s tempestuous Piano Concerto No. 1. The melody from this concerto’s iconic opening became a huge hit when transformed into the love song “Tonight We Love,” but the rest of this audacious early work is even more compelling, as it alternates between dreamy passion and quick passages of dazzling difficulty. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 shows the master at the height of his powers—transporting us from a pastoral beginning through wry humor, high tragedy, and triumph.
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Date/Time
Date(s) - Sun, May 8, 2022
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location
Empress Theatre
330 Virginia St., Vallejo
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Categories
Tags Classical
