FATE
Metro Series Concert #3

Tchaikovsky wrote of his Fourth Symphony:

“...This is Fate, the fatal power that hinders one in the pursuit of happiness from gaining the goal, which jealously provides that peace and comfort do not prevail, that the sky is not free from clouds—a might that swings, like the sword of Damocles, constantly over the head that poisons the soul.”

Night on Bald Mountain opens the concert with that same tumult of energy contained in the Fourth, with Mussorgsky’s depiction of a witches’ sabbath. Soloist Courtenay Cleary continues with the Queensland premiere of contemporary American composer Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Violin Concerto, with its insistent, dexterous passages drawing the listener to the edge of their seat. The concert concludes with the immense Fourth Symphony, sonorous and demanding.

SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER, 7PM
OLD MUSEUM CONCERT HALL, BOWEN HILLS

Conductor: Rachel Howley
Violin Soloist: Courtenay Cleary

PROGRAM:

Modest Mussorgsky | Night on Bald Mountain
Jennifer Higdon | Violin Concerto
Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 4 in F minor, “Fate”