Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho

Name: Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho
Start: 2025-01-30T21:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-01-31T00:00:00-07:00
Location: Walt Disney Concert Hall

Schedule

Thu Jan 30 2025 at 09:00 pm to Fri Jan 31 2025 at 12:00 am

UTC-07:00

Location

Walt Disney Concert Hall | Los Angeles, CA

After becoming deeply drawn to “Liebestod” (Love-Death) from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Strauss composed his own musical exploration of what lies beyond life itself. Through stunning harmonies and masterful orchestration, Death and Transfiguration illustrates a man’s physiological and psychological deterioration. In a similar vein, Kaija Saariaho completed HUSH, her self-proclaimed “journey to silence,” during her final months with terminal brain cancer. Dedicated to jazz trumpeter Veneri Pohjola, the concerto features the trumpet growling from its lowest register and gliding downward like a ghost amongst the orchestra. Susanna Mälkki takes the lead for the evening, conducting Schubert’s chilling yet charming two-movement symphony, nicknamed the “Unfinished.”
Concerts in the Thursday 2 subscription series are generously supported by the Otis Booth Foundation.
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