"Our Will to Live"
Terezín 1944 • music • art • drama
Symphony Hall Boston • November 11 • Veteran's Day
Symphony Hall Boston • November 11 • Veteran's Day
THREE SYMPHONY HALL PREMIERES:
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"Our will to create was commensurate
with our will to live." — Terezín composer Viktor Ullmann |
ANDRIS NELSONS conducts Boston Symphony Orchestra members performing the Overture for Small Orchestra by Terezín composer Hans Krása — a Symphony Hall debut.
ANNETTE MILLER performs the Symphony Hall debut of Terezín composer Viktor Ullmann’s dramatic setting of Rainer Maria Rilke’s wartime prose poem, “Cornets Christoph Rilke,” with pianist Vytas Baksys and original set designs by painter Daniel Ludwig.
MEMBERS OF THE BSO will perform André Previn's 2018 TMF commission, Quintet for Horn and String Quartet — one of the maestro’s last works. NORMAN L. EISEN, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, receives the 2019 Terezín Legacy Award, presented by George and Liz Krupp.
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