Previous Concerts
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The Orchestra adventures through swashbuckling, fantastical classics in this concert, which features John Williams’ iconic Star Wars soundtrack, Strauss’ ebullient symphonic tone poem of the infamous libertine, Don Juan, and Korngold’s soundtrack to the 1940 film, Sea Hawk. Carlos Simon’s “Tap,” a study of the tap dance and its origins in the social climate of American slavery, and Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” written in response to the US entry in World War 2 and now embedded in popular culture, remind us of how art can transform historical realities. Rounding out the program is Bernard Rands’ Symphonic Fantasy, a one-movement work dedicated to Music Director William Boughton.
Richard Strauss - Don Juan
Bernard Rands - Symphonic Fantasy
Aaron Copland “Fanfare for the Common Man”
Erich Korngold - Sea Hawk Overture
Carlos Simon - “Tap” from Four Black American Dances
John Williams “Star Wars” SuiteThe 24/25 Woolsey Series is generously supported by the Daniel Feller ’74 Yale Symphony Endowment Fund in Honor of John Mauceri (Music Director 1968-74).
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Music Director William Boughton and the Yale Symphony Orchestra kick off the season with Carlos Simon’s “Ring Shout” and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis’ jubilant Violin Concerto. Tai Murray, professor of violin at the Yale School of Music, is the soloist in the Marsalis, a work that celebrates “the public storytelling that is virtuosic performance” and the “common musical ground” between the jazz and modern orchestras. The concert concludes with Shostakovich’s shattering Fifth Symphony, a journey from haunting despair to its famously ambiguous finale — rousing triumph or a defiant critique of life under Stalin?
Carlos Simon - “Ring Shout” from Five Black American Dances
Wynton Marsalis - Violin Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5The 24/25 Woolsey Series is generously supported by the Daniel Feller ’74 Yale Symphony Endowment Fund in Honor of John Mauceri (Music Director 1968-74).
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Program: Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5, Nina Shekhar - Lumina,
Ottorino Respighi - Pini di Roma -
with Katia Kim, Soprano, Gene Stenger, Tenor, Edmund Milly, Baritone and Yale Glee Club - Jeffrey Douma, Director, Yale Camerata - Felicia Barber, Director, Elm City Girls Choir - Rebecca Rosenbaum, Director and Trinity Boys Choir and Trinity Girls Choir - Walden Moore, Director. Projection design by Camilla Tassi. Program: Benjamin Britten - War Requiem, Op. 66
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with Katia Kim, Soprano, Gene Stenger, Tenor, Edmund Milly, Baritone and Yale Glee Club - Jeffrey Douma, Director, Yale Camerata - Felicia Barber, Director, Elm City Girls Choir - Rebecca Rosenbaum, Director and Trinity Boys Choir and Trinity Girls Choir - Walden Moore, Director. Projection design by Camilla Tassi. Program: Benjamin Britten - War Requiem, Op. 66. This concert is made possible through the generous support of the Charles B. Kaufmann III ’66 Yale Glee Club Fund