Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven

Name: Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven
Start: 2025-09-14T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-14T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center

Schedule

Sun Sep 14 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center | Dallas, TX

DAVID ROBERTSON conducts
EMANUEL AX piano
BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
JOHN ADAMS Harmonielehre (DSO premiere)
It’s always an event when Emanuel Ax performs, and Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto will showcase his prodigious virtuosity. This grand work speaks with a bold new voice in the dramatic key of C minor that Beethoven turned to for his revolutionary works. After a gargantuan orchestral introduction, the piano announces its presence with three crashing fortissimo chords! The exhilarating Harmonielehre is one of Adams’ most popular works. A fascinating fusion of minimalism and late Romanticism — rushing waves of color, pulsing rhythms and shimmering textures — it promises an unforgettable musical journey at its DSO premiere. The composer points to the final movement that “culminates in a tidal wave of brass and percussion over a pedal point on E-flat Major.” Beginning this concert is the piece that sparked Barber’s career, The School for Scandal. His first work for orchestra is filled with romance and drama, ending on a note of joyous harmony.