MasterWorks Concerts

Timothy Muffitt, conductor
Phil Sinder, tuba

COPLAND - Appalachian Spring
BROUGHTON - Tuba Concerto
FRANCK - Symphony in D Minor

Don't miss the opportunity to experience one of America's best-known and most beloved works for orchestra - Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. The Tuba Concerto by Bruce Broughton, another great American composer, will feature LSO Principal Tubist, Philip Sinder. Broughton, an Emmy Award-winning television and film composer, creates an experience in this work that is uniquely fresh and full of technical wizardry. The evening concludes with a work from the heart of French Romanticism, Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor.

Timothy Muffitt, conductor
Philippe Bianconi, piano

DEBUSSY - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
STRAUSS - Death and Transfiguration
BRAHMS - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major

In both art and music, nothing quite compares to French Romanticism. With its languorous melodies and shimmering orchestration, Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun is a quintessential model of that style. Following is Strauss's tone poem, Death and Transfiguration, a classic of late Romanticism. The evening comes to a rousing close with Brahms's second piano concerto. Joining the orchestra is world-renowned Van Cliburn-medalist Philippe Bianconi. Mr. Bianconi has been described as an artist whose playing is "always close to the soul of the music, filling the space with poetry and life" (Washington Post).