WHEN:
January 10, 2025
WHERE:
Marian Anderson Hall
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Philadelphia
TICKETS:
For more information and tickets visit the Philadelphia Orchestra website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
The concert will feature the North American premiere of Mason Bates’s “Spring River Flowers by Moonlight,” a new setting of the Tang dynasty poem of the same name. The Philadelphia Orchestra, soprano Maureen Kelly, and baritone Valdis Jansons gave the world premiere of the piece in Beijing during the Orchestra’s 2024 Tour of China. Seen and Heard International praised Bates’s ability to capture “... the poem’s sentiments in subtle and scintillating musical gestures,” while Maureen Kelly’s “lush soprano soared above the orchestra,” and “Valdis Jansons’s commanding baritone expressed longing and love ...”
The evening’s “spring”-inspired program will also include Liu Dehai, Wang Yanqiao, and Wu Zuqiang’s The Young Heroic Sisters of the Mongolian Grassland with pipa player Zhang Hongyan in her Philadelphia Orchestra debut; Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Overture to Die Fledermaus and “Voices of Spring” Waltz; Lili Boulanger’s Of a Spring Morning; “Flower Drum Song from Fengyang” from Huang Ruo’s Folk Songs for Orchestra; and Li Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture.
