January 26 & 27 • YOUR CHOICE: 8 pm Sat or 3 pm Sun
Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre

Alasdair Neale, conductor • Sarah Chang, violin

“Her gifts are at a level so removed from the rest of us that all we can do is feel the appropriate awe and then wonder on the mysteries of nature. The ancients would certainly have had Ms. Chang emerging fully formed from some Botticellian scallop shell.”    –  The New York Times

The brooding emotional drama of the Fifth Symphony is classic Tchaikovsky. Rossini’s genius for melody and comedy permeates his popular Semiramide Overture. For pure American lyricism, no work outshines Barber’s Violin Concerto, performed by the incomparable Sarah Chang.

ROSSINI | Semiramide Overture   [Listen to a Sample]
BARBER | Violin Concerto   [Listen to a Sample]
TCHAIKOVSKY | Symphony No. 5    [Listen to a Sample]

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