Name: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Start: 2024-06-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Orchestra Hall

Organization

Conductor

Jader Bignamini

Instrumentalist

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Cello

Orchestra

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Detroit

United States

Orchestra Hall

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: Short Piece for Orchestra Perry, J. A. (+2 More)

Public

Short Piece for Orchestra

Cello Concerto op. 43

Symphony No. 5

Anna-Maria Gkouni

Approved

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Musette de cour Player

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Viola da gamba

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Executive producer

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Orchestra Operations

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Stage director

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Singer

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Tenor

Mezzo-soprano

Baritone

Soprano

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Tom Huizenga | November 15, 2022
One measure of an artist’s popularity is how long it takes to book them for a Tiny Desk concert. In the case of British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, it took about three years. Granted, the pandemic got in the way, but ever since his 2018 breakthrough performance at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, he’s been -- needless to say -- in demand. Nearly 2 billion people worldwide saw his royal performance on television. 

At the Tiny Desk, Kanneh-Mason played for only a handful of NPR staffers, and the performance felt like a direct communication from his luminous cello (built in 1700) to our heartstrings. It was especially true in Kanneh-Mason’s own arrangement of “Myfanwy,” the mournful Welsh folk song the cellist first heard from his grandmother. Accompanying himself with left hand pizzicato, Kanneh-Mason makes his instrument sing like a sad old Welshman with a tear in his eye. 

Aside from his expressive playing, Kanneh-Mason excels at arranging pop songs for his instrument. “No Woman, No Cry,” one of his calling cards, explores the tender and bittersweet side of the Bob Marley classic.  

Still only 23, Kanneh-Mason’s stature commands the attention of composers. Last year, the fine young Brit Edmund Finnis wrote a set of solo preludes for Kanneh-Mason. The music reveals the cello’s many voices, from growling urgency to supple soliloquy to full-throated cry. 

While we can’t guarantee 2 billion views on our platforms, those who do watch this Tiny Desk performance will witness a rising young star who, whether he knows it or not, represents nothing less than the future of classical music.

SET LIST
Bob Marley: “No Woman, No Cry” (arr. Sheku Kanneh-Mason)
Edmund Finnis: Preludes I-III for solo cello
Joseph Parry: “Myfanwy” (arr. Sheku Kanneh-Mason)

MUSICIANS
Sheku Kanneh-Mason: cello

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Tom Huizenga
Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
Audio Engineer: Andie Huether
Audio Mix: Josh Rogosin
Creative Director: Bob Boilen
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel
Audio Assistant: Hannah Copeland 
Production Assistant: Jill Britton
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Tiny Desk Concert

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has established himself as "nothing less than the future of classical music" (NPR). We celebrate the centennial of Julia Perry’s birth with a brilliant piece by the prolific Kentucky-born composer, and we end the 2023–2024 season with the fateful theme and inevitable glories of Beethoven's timeless Fifth Symphony.

English

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony by Perry, J. A., Weinberg, Beethoven, Sat 08 Méit 2024, Ó (2024/2024), Seoltóir Jader Bignamini, Orchestra Hall, Detroit, United States

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Físeáin

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid