Chelsea Symphony Season Finale!

Aaron Israel Levin In Between

Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D Minor (1822)
Adam von Housen Violin

Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 61
E.J. Lee Violin

John Corigliano Symphony No. 1

The Chelsea Symphony presents the season finale of RESOLUTION with a concert featuring John Corigliano's Symphony No. 1. Written in the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was claiming the lives of many. As the first of his large format works, the symphonic form here is used to commemorate, as the composer noted, "my friends – those I had lost and the one I was losing." Partly inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, the first movement is subtitled "Apologue: Of Rage and Remembrance," and is dedicated to a pianist. The next two movements commemorate a music executive and a cellist. In the finale, a tarantella melody played by piano in a featured role and the cello line from the previous movements are juxtaposed against “a repeated pattern consisting of waves of brass chords ... [to convey] an image of timelessness."


Also on this finale series, TCS welcomes back two soloists to the stage for two solos for the violin: Adam von Housen performs the Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D minor on Saturday's concert, written by the prodigious composer when he was just 13 years old and forgotten until after his death. Sunday's matinee performance brings EJ Lee to the stage to close out our soloist season with the Beethoven Violin Concerto.