It’s one of the most beloved works of the Romantic era and Rimsky-Korsakov’s grandest symphonic masterpiece. And now, Symphony Nova Scotia performs the imaginative, colourful Scheherazade for the first time in almost a decade. Music Director Holly Mathieson conducts this awe-inspiring tour de force that the composer himself called “a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale images” to kick off our Spotlight Series. Plus, multi-award-winning, rising star Canadian pianist Tony Yike Yang – youngest-ever laureate in the history of the International Chopin Piano Competition and hailed as “one of Canada’s finest young musicians” (CBC) – joins us to perform Tchaikovksy’s captivating Piano Concerto No. 1, a piece that has been admired for over 150 years for its virtuosic piano writing, lush melodies, and beautiful orchestration.

Please note: This Spotlight Concert is on Friday, October 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm.

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Take a listen to the colourful, imaginative Scheherazade, one of the most beloved works of the Romantic era and Rimsky-Korsakov’s grandest symphonic masterpiece.

Preview Tchaikovsky’s captivating Piano Concerto No. 1, admired for its virtuosic piano writing, lush melodies, and beautiful orchestration.

UNDISCOVERED GEMS

We invite you to learn more about the new, lesser-known, or newly-rediscovered pieces of music performed in our Spotlight Series! This concert features Canadian composer Cassanda Miller’s Swim, co-commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Victoria Symphony composed and premiered on November 5, 2023 in Victoria, BC. It was composed as a companion piece for Schumann’s Third Symphony with inspiration from Canadian poet Anne Carson.

Miller writes of the piece, “At first, I took each two-chord gesture of the Schumann excerpt and repeated it, in right-left slowness (and blurred it, as if underwater). Each section of Swim then explores images from Carson’s essay, ‘Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother’ (as found in the publication Plainwater: essays and poetry, 1995). In Schumann’s original, his chords are imbued with heroic, romantic ideologies, sounding grandiose. In Swim, they take on my own ordinary and resolutely non-heroic feelings about swimming, via Carson’s imagery: dull and vivid colours, quotidian repetition, and cold revery.”

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