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Erin Keefe, violin
Erin Keefe, violin | © Nate Ryan

Erin Keefe Plays Bernstein

Thu Feb 23 — Sat Feb 25, 2023

Orchestra Hall

~2 hrs, including intermission

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The Friday night performance will be broadcast live on YourClassical Minnesota Public Radio. Find your station or listen online.

Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska makes her Minnesota Orchestra debut in an all-American program featuring the Orchestra’s own Concertmaster Erin Keefe. Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute alumna Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) opens the concert with enchanting music that churns and roils. Then, Keefe leads the way through a witty dinner table conversation set to music in Bernstein’s Serenade, after Plato’s “Symposium.” Finally, the Orchestra brings William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony—a remarkable work of art and story of true perseverance, inspired by African American spirituals—to the Orchestra Hall stage for the first time.

 

Video: Singer, professor, scholar and founder of the African Diaspora Music Project, Dr. Louise Toppin, discusses the historical context in which William Dawson wrote his Negro Folk Symphony.

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  • Armless & Bariatric Chairs
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Large-Print Programs
  • Noise-Cancelling Headphones
  • Service Animals
  • Wheelchair & Accessible Seating

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