Michael Morgan
“Adventurous
programming doesn’t always mean contemporary music,” says Michael
Morgan. “Sometimes it’s nice to look back and find something that has
gotten lost in the shuffle of history.” Maestro Morgan, the Symphony,
and audiences will do just that as we re-discover Danish composer Victor
Bendix’s lush Symphony No. 3 (1895). It’s astonishing that such a
gorgeous and grand Romantic work slipped into obscurity after the
composer’s successful career that bridged the 19th and 20th centuries. A
former student of Franz Liszt and close friend of composer Carl
Nielsen Bendix shared the more famous Dane’s flare for emotionally
powerful music but has been eclipsed by his colleague's fame and the
fickle favors of history.
Also on the program will be the return of sensational young
pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner as he performs Felix Mendelssohn's
Piano Concerto No. 1, Toland Voice Competition-winner Brent Turner
singing Offenbach and Lehar, and Bach’s monumental Toccata and Fugue in D
minor in the Stokowski orchestration that was featured in Disney’s
Fantasia (1940).
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