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2022-23 BSO Season

Omer Meir Wellber conducts Beethoven, Milch-Sheriff, and Tchaikovsky with Midori, violin

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Symphony Hall, Boston, MA

Performing with the BSO at Symphony Hall for the first time since 2003, renowned violinist Midori joins Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber in his BSO debut for Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto. Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff’s The Eternal Stranger for narrator and orchestra relates Ludwig van Beethoven’s difficulty in society due to his personality and deafness to the hostility and rejection experienced by refugees and other “strangers.” The funeral march from the Eroica Symphony and the overture from Beethoven’s opera about a political imprisonment remind us of the composer’s abiding universal humanity.

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor
Midori, violin
Eli Danker, narrator

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto (35)
---- Intermission----
Ella MILCH-SHERIFF The Eternal Stranger, for narrator and orchestra (American premiere) Text in English (18)

BEETHOVEN Marcia funebre from Symphony No. 3, Eroica (15)

BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3 (14)

Midori holding her violin and bow, smiling
Omer Meir Wellber portrait
portrait of Eli Danker

Performance Details

Jan 5, 2023, 7:30pm EST

The Fernand Gillet Concert
The Marie L. Audet Gillet Concert

Featuring

Program Notes & Works

Violin Concerto in D

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky finally managed to arrange the premiere in far-away Boston—so that if it were a flop, he would not have to be present to hear it himself.

The Eternal Stranger, for narrator and orchestra

Ella Milch-Sheriff

Ella Milch-Sheriff's The Eternal Stranger piece was inspired by a dream Beethoven had in which he imagined himself transplanted to Jerusalem.

Marcia funebre from Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Ludwig van Beethoven

The moving Funeral March musically mirrors the triumphs and struggles of a heroic figure inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte, although Beethoven later rejected that connection.

Leonore Overture No. 3

Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven's sole opera Leonore (later revised as Fidelio) revolves around the title character posing as man to save her husband, Florestan, from politically motivated imprisonment.

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