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Michael Tilson Thomas at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
Courtesy of Bandsintown | Posted on July 28, 2018
Where
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue
New York, NY
Map
212-247-7800
When
Tue, March 5, 2019
8:00 pm
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Solemnity, fury, and joy—sometimes in a single work—characterize the music on this program. Ives’s Decoration Day (now known as Memorial Day) with its allusions to church bells, hymns, and military band music evokes a mood of reverence. Brahms also conjures a serious tone in the second movement of his Symphony No. 2, but the work’s overall warmth and jubilant finale dispels all sorrow. Beethoven balances a stormy mood, melancholy, and high spirits in his groundbreaking Piano Concerto No. 3, a work played by Igor Levit, “one of the essential artists of his generation” (The New York Times).\nPerformers\nVienna Philharmonic Orchestra\nMichael Tilson Thomas, Conductor\nIgor Levit, Piano\nProgram\nIVES Decoration Day\nBEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No...