The Longy Conservatory Orchestra

Free and open to the public

Tomorrow night at 7:30 pm, the Longy School of Music‘s Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Julian Pellicano and featuring soloist Kenneth Radnofsky, performs a special concert at the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater.

The program opens with one of Alexander Borodin‘s most popular works, In the Steppes of Central Asia. Written in 1880 as part of a large festival of the arts to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Czar Alexander II’s ascension to the Russian throne, this symphonic poem is one of Borodin’s most popular pieces. The first half of the program concludes with the New York premiere of Concerto for Alto Saxophone by James Yannatos, preeminent composer and conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for over four decades. Commissioned by Longy faculty and saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky, this concerto is Yannatos’s last work. The evening concert will conclude with Tchaikovsky‘s Fifth Symphony, a cyclical symphony with a recurring main theme that is transformed throughout the piece.

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