On Thursday, January 29 at 10:30 A.M. and Friday, January 30 at 8 P.M. Teddy Abrams revives the Louisville Orchestra’s legacy with a commissioned work by composer, Sebastian Chang. Louisville audiences were introduced to Chang’s work, Walking, at the February 20, 2014 Preview Concert. Johannes Brahms’ monumental First Symphony is also on the program.
Sebastian Chang started playing piano at four, wrote his first work at the tender age of five and his first composition hit the world stage at a UNICEF conference UICEF where the Tokyo Symphony performed a small piano concerto when he was eight. Read his full bio and hear a sample of his work by visiting https://www.louisvilleorchestra.org/sebastian-chang/
Chang says of his commissioned Symphony, “The work retains fidelity to traditional concepts of musical structure and organization, but the broadening of the harmonic world of neoclassicism, most clearly represented by works by mid–‐period Stravinsky or Prokofiev’s own Classical Symphony, proved to me to be a necessary expansion of the symphony’s harmonic organization.”
Fourteen years after he started, Brahms’ was 43 years old when he finished his first of four symphonies. He resisted writing a symphony in trepidation of comparison to “the giant,” Beethoven. Today the Brahms’ First Symphony is a monument familiar to all.
Single tickets range from $75 – $15 and are available by calling 502.584.7777 or here: http://www.kentuckycenter.org/Louisville-Orchestra/14-15/Brahms-Symphony...
Read the program notes by Sebastian Chang and Mark Rohr here: https://www.louisvilleorchestra.org/brahms-symphony-no-1-program-notes/