Andris Nelsons conducts Snider, Prokofiev, and Dvořák featuring Augustin Hadelich, violin
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Sarah Kirkland SNIDER Forward into Light
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7
Written as part of the NY Philharmonic’s “Project 19” — which commissioned 19 female composers to write new works commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment — Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Forward Into Light is a meditation on “perseverance, bravery, and alliance.” The title is derived from a suffrage slogan, and the music contains quotes from the woman’s suffrage movement anthem, “March of the Women.”
Grammy-winner Augustin Hadelich rounds out the program with Prokofiev’s intense Violin Concerto No. 2, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 – sometimes called the composer's greatest symphony.
Today's performance of Forward into Light is supported by John Lowell Thorndike, former BSO trustee, treasurer, vice president, and lifelong advocate for the performance of contemporary music.
Performance Details
Jul 14, 2024, 2:30pm EDT
Program Notes & Works
Forward Into Light
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s colorful and energetic Forward Into Light includes a quote from Dame Ethel Smyth’s “March of the Women,” a suffragette anthem from the 1910s.
Violin Concerto No. 2
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Opus 70
Since it was only the second of his symphonies to appear in print, it was published as “No. 2.” But the manuscript described the work as Dvořák’s “6th Symphony”—and it was actually his seventh!
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