Name: Season finale: Denève and Ehnes
Start: 2024-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: New World Center, Michael Tilson Thomas Performance Hall

Organization

Conductor

Stéphane Denève

Instrumentalist

Violinist

James Ehnes

Violin

Orchestra

New World Symphony

Molly Turner

Season finale: Denève and Ehnes

Miami Beach

United States

New World Center, Michael Tilson Thomas Performance Hall

Season finale: Denève and Ehnes: Violin Concerto No. 1 Williams, John (+3 More)

Public

Concert

Violin Concerto No. 1

The Rite of Spring

Just Down West Street … on the left

Les trois saisons

Approved

Star Wars, E.T., Jaws and more… John Williams has captured the public imagination with his orchestral scores for Hollywood’s biggest films. Artistic Director Stéphane Denève closes New World Symphony’s season by charting the evolution of one of our best-known living composers, sharing two evocative works written 40 years apart. “A violinist in a class all his own,” James Ehnes takes the stage for Williams’s First Violin Concerto, dedicated to the memory of the composer’s late wife (The Times). 

Then, the concert takes a wild, heart-thumping turn as 87 of the world’s best young musicians take on Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Met with controversy at its premiere, this pagan ballet found new life in Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940) where it was accompanied by a prehistoric battle scene. The piece is introduced with the world premiere of Guillaume Connesson’s The Three Seasons, a prelude to The Rite of Spring that uses the same instrumentation and mythic references as Stravinsky.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Instrumentation

Ensemble