Symphonic Farewells (Sunday Performance)

25 Marlboro Road,Southborough MA 01772

30 January, 2022

Description

Pianist Benjamin Hochman joins SPM for Bartók's Symphony No.3. Also Boulanger's D'un Matin de printemps and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6 Interested in the Saturday, January 29th 7:30 pm Hudson High School Performance? Click here! SPM members have expectantly waited some 20 months to perform this magical program, originally scheduled for March, 2020! Most notably SPM will complete our cycle of all six Tchaikovsky symphonies with the venerated “Pathetique,” the work the composer described as “the best thing I ever composed or shall compose.” Dealing with the “power of fate in life and death,” the 6th was Tchaikovsky’s final work and is often seen as his farewell to a complex and troubled life, expressed with passion, confidence, love, and, finally, resignation and release. Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 is Bartók’s final composition, written as a loving gift to his wife. This affectionate and tuneful creation looks back to the classical and romantic periods, experienced through the composer’s groundbreaking musical language. SPM is joined for this performance by widely-known piano soloist Benjamin Hochman, lauded for his orchestral, recital, and chamber music performances. Opening the program is French impressionist composer Lili Boulanger’s One Spring Morning, a work of sublime beauty and her last orchestral compositions, written just before her untimely passing at age 25. There will be a preconcert lecture 45 minutes prior to the performance . Proof of vaccination (picture ok) and masks required. Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Benjamin Hochman Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 “Pathetique” Under the direction of Music Director and conductor Mark Churchill, Symphony Pro Musica is a critically-acclaimed community orchestra that performs in Hudson and Southborough, MA. Performing engaging programs of the highest caliber, SPM provides residents in MetroWest and Central Massachusetts the opportunity to attend live orchestral concerts at affordable prices.  The orchestra is dedicated to featuring rising young stars, offering audience members a  glimpse of the future of classical music, as well as presenting a wide range of music drawn from the classical repertoire.