Nordic Lights
One World Symphony
Sung Jin Hong, Artistic Director and Conductor
One World Symphony Vocal Artists
Christopher Johnson, Pianist
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (1868)
Esa Pekka Salonen: Foreign Bodies (2002, New York Premiere)
Kaija Saariaho: Parfum de l'instant (2002, New York Premiere)
Jean Sibelius: Four Songs — The North, First Kiss, The Tryst, Was it a Dream? (1904)*
*World premiere orchestration and arrangement (2011) by Sung Jin Hong
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity
157 Montague Street
Brooklyn Heights
Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Ansche Chesed Synagogue
251 West 100 Street (at West End)
Manhattan
$30 Students/Seniors with ID
$40 General
Soar to the mystical sounds of the North. Devoted to Norwegian identity and folk music, Edvard Grieg's only piano concerto opens with a drum-roll and solo cascade of octaves and ends with the glorification of the Norwegian national dance "halling." Foreign Bodies, a work by Finnish composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, builds on rhythmic innovations and fuses stunning virtuosity and rich sonorities. The sensual intensity of Kaija Saariaho's Parfum de l'instant (Perfume of the moment) for soprano and orchestra casts a potent spell, creating the evocative soundscape of the North. Finnish composer Jean Sibelius' love for nature inspired him to write nearly 100 songs. Sung Jin Hong has orchestrated and arranged four of Sibelius' songs into a cycle conjuring the intimate feelings of a first kiss and lover's betrayal, all set in the Scandinavian countryside. Might this all have been a dream?
Program length: 80 minutes without intermission
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity
157 Montague Street
Brooklyn Heights
Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Ansche Chesed Synagogue
251 West 100 Street (at West End)
Manhattan
What's Next
Sept 17 & 19,
2010
