Sir Andrew Davis conducts Coleman, Tchaikovsky, and Berlioz — With Hilary Hahn
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
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Cast
Hilary Hahn — Violinist
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
Sir Andrew Davis — Conductor
Program notes
Join the National Youth Orchestra of the United States for a very special stop in Dallas on their coast-to-coast North American tour, conducted by the great Sir Andrew Davis! On the program: contemporary American composer Valerie Coleman's brand-new Giants of Light, commissioned by Carnegie Hall to celebrate the NYO-USA's 10th birthday; the electrifying Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, with the inimitable Hilary Hahn performing some of the most difficult and memorable passages in the violin repertoire; and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a masterpiece of programmatic music that depicts an artist haunted by an unrequited love, following him on a hallucinatory journey from pastoral tranquility all the way to a sinister witches' sabbath…
Photo: Hilary Hahn © Dana van Leeuwen / Decca
Hilary Hahn appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon
