Feb 2022
DSSO: To Celebrate
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra presents Johannes Brahms’ musical throwback to student life as the boisterous sounds of his Academic Festival Overture fill the hall. Concertmaster Erin Aldridge then leads Afro-Cuban composer José White’s virtuosic Violin Concerto. The celebration takes a jazzy turn with Duke Ellington’s cinematic and toe-tapping The River Suite before ending with Respighi’s exuberant Roman Festivals, a triumphant toast to 90 years of the DSSO.
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DSSO: To Persevere
Intimacy and profoundness meet boldness and resilience in this Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra performance. Guest soloist Geneva Lewis will play the famed “Joachim Stradivarius” -- the actual instrument Josef Joachim played when he premiered Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in 1879. Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 then brings down the house in a fury of unrelenting persistence. Following a compositional idea that takes the audience from darkness to light, Beethoven perfectly illustrates his own personal struggle with his oncoming deafness: Through struggle and…
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DSSO: To Fall In Love
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra opens this love-themed concert with Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C, a piece that challenged conventions at a time when only men’s compositions were recognized. The program continues with a lively conversation between two pianos and the orchestra in Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos. Concluding the concert is Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, Romantic.
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The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra presents a night of song, opening with the Negro Folk Symphony, composed by William Dawson in 1934. Dawson creates a work that is reminiscent of Dvořák’s New World Symphony, using traditional spirituals sung across the instruments in the orchestra. Then, the Symphony Chorus performs an array of choral showstoppers including Orff’s dramatic O Fortuna and Handel’s timeless Hallelujah chorus.
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