Bernstein, Copland, and Prokofiev with Yuja Wang

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano

BERNSTEIN Three Dance Episodes from On The Town
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Scintillating pianist Yuja Wang joins returning conductor Domingo Hindoyan and the BSO in Sergei Prokofiev’s technically challenging Piano Concerto No. 2, a piece that combines the composer’s sardonic humor with his gift for soaring melody. Two American works from the 1940s bracket the concerto. Leonard Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from his 1944 musical On the Town features music referencing such hits as “New York, New York” and the wistful “Lonely Town.” Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony, premiered by the BSO in 1946, includes the uplifting “Fanfare for the Common Man.”