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Nashville Philharmonic: FREE Concert: Adams, Theofanidis and Shostakovich May 5 & 10
Nashville Philharmonic
Dr. Christopher Norton, Conductor
John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine
– Vaughn Richardson, NPO Conducting Fellow
Christopher Theofanidis – Rainbow Body
Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 10
Tue, may 5, 7:30 pm
Admission Free
Nashville State Community College
H-Building Auditorium
126 White Bridge Pike
Nashville, TN 37209
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Spanning high-energy minimalism and some of the most emotionally complex works of the last 80 years, the program offers audiences a striking conclusion to the season.
The concert opens with Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine, a kinetic and propulsive fanfare that has become one of the most recognizable works in contemporary American orchestral music. Theofanidis’s Rainbow Body follows, a shimmering and expansive work inspired by a medieval chant and known for its radiant textures and sense of transcendence. Anchoring the program is Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, a monumental and deeply personal work composed in the aftermath of Stalin’s death, widely regarded as one of the composer’s most searing and emotionally resonant symphonies.