He was a musical prodigy who escaped WWII Europe for Hollywood – and shaped the sounds of a new genre – film – in its golden age. Now, experience violin phenom Midori perform Erich Korngold’s criminally underplayed, moving Violin Concerto– in a concert also featuring Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony is a lyrical masterpiece that The Guardian calls “35 minutes of life-enhancing joy” and William Schuman’s spirited homage to the countrymen and women who founded our nation.
New England Triptych
Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 8
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Midori, violin