Orchestra to open curtain on 2014-2015 season
Norwalk classical music aficionados will not want to miss the upcoming Norwalk Symphony Orchestra performance, as Midori opens its 75th Anniversary Season. It will be a night of Schumann, Mozart, Ives, and Japanese-American violinist Midori Goto.
Goto debuted with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta, when she was 11 years old. Her first public performance was given in her hometown of Osaka, Japan, when she was aged just six. At that time, she demonstrated her virtuosity by playing 24 Caprices of Paganini. Here in Norwalk, she will be playing Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto.
Mozart’s lively Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Symphony No. 29 will also be included in the evening’s program, as will The Unanswered Question, by American composer, Charles Ives. The miniature piece that the composer calls a “cosmic drama” is a collage of three distinct musical layers. The background is composed of a string chorale as a solo trumpet repeats a theme representing the question of existence, while a quartet of strings searches for an answer.
Local printing companies have no doubt been busily printing programs for this performance, as well as for the rest of the orchestra’s upcoming season.
The performance will take place Saturday, October 25, from 8:00 pm until 10:00pm in the Concert Hall, 125 East Avenue, Norwalk.
Goto debuted with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta, when she was 11 years old. Her first public performance was given in her hometown of Osaka, Japan, when she was aged just six. At that time, she demonstrated her virtuosity by playing 24 Caprices of Paganini. Here in Norwalk, she will be playing Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto.
Mozart’s lively Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Symphony No. 29 will also be included in the evening’s program, as will The Unanswered Question, by American composer, Charles Ives. The miniature piece that the composer calls a “cosmic drama” is a collage of three distinct musical layers. The background is composed of a string chorale as a solo trumpet repeats a theme representing the question of existence, while a quartet of strings searches for an answer.
Local printing companies have no doubt been busily printing programs for this performance, as well as for the rest of the orchestra’s upcoming season.
The performance will take place Saturday, October 25, from 8:00 pm until 10:00pm in the Concert Hall, 125 East Avenue, Norwalk.