One World Symphony
Russian Romantics
One World Symphony
Sung Jin Hong, Artistic Director and Conductor
Christopher Johnson, Pianist
One World Symphony Vocal Artists
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor (1909)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (highlights)
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity
157 Montague Street
(Corner of Clinton)
Brooklyn Heights
Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
Ansche Chesed Synagogue
251 West 100th Street
(Corner of West End Ave)
Manhattan
General Admission $40
Seniors & Students $30
Join One World Symphony's all Russian program, awakening the depths
of passion and obsession. The 1996 film Shine suggested that the ferocious
demands and difficulties of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
(1909) plunged the protagonist into madness. By popular demand, New York
pianist Christopher Johnson returns to One World Symphony as the featured
soloist to showcase the piece's titanic range -- from imposing drama to
quicksilver wit to tender lyricism. Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, based on
Aleksandr Pushkin's novel, is devoted to the intense relationship between
art, life, and reality through both Tatyana's and Onegin's single-minded
and tragic fervors. Does life imitate art far more than art imitates life?