Strum
CSO Sessions - Episodes • 01-Feb-2022
Franz Schubert’s sunny and tuneful Fifth Symphony anchors a program led by former CSO Solti Conducting Apprentice Erina Yashima that includes two of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Noveletten, which feature expansive melodies propelled by rhythmic energy. Zoltán Kodály pays homage to the folk music of his native Hungary in Dances of Galánta, while Strum, by Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, draws folkish timbres from the familiar classical string orchestra.
PROGRAM
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Novelette in A Minor, Op. 52, No. 3
Novelette in D Major, Op. 52, No. 4
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485
MONTGOMERY Strum for String Orchestra
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
SPONSORS
Sponsorship support for CSO Sessions is generously provided by the Zell Family Foundation; an anonymous donor; Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund; the Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner Brown Digital Media Fund; JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of the DuPage Foundation; the Julian Family Foundation, in honor of Cristina Rocca; Cynthia M. Sargent; Megan and Steve Shebik; Betty W. Smykal; TAWANI Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; ITW, and PNC.
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