Juilliard Orchestra
Xian Zhang, Conductor

Vivian FUNG New Work (Juilliard commission, World premiere)
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Music director of the Seattle Symphony Xian Zhang leads the Juilliard Orchestra in its final concert of the season. Zhang, a Grammy- and Emmy-winning conductor, has regularly performed new works by the composer and Juilliard alum Vivian Fung and gives a world premiere by Fung, commissioned by Juilliard.
 
The celebratory occasion is met with dances in the orchestra, first with Zoltan Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, which transforms central European folk music from Hungary and Slovakia into a rollicking symphonic ride. Richard Strauss, on the other hand, skews to the more elegant dance forms in his opera Der Rosenkavalier, with the suite moving between enchanting waltzes and the lush sounds of a love story.

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