OPEN REHEARSAL
Juraj Valčuha & Gil Shaham
Overview
The success of Brahms’s sole Violin Concerto was hard-won, but now it's impossible to imagine the Romantic violin repertoire without it. Juraj Valčuha and Gil Shaham return for a luminous reading of the ultimate sleeper hit. Shostakovich’s intensely passionate, profoundly ambivalent Symphony No. 10 brims over with real-life references—ranging from a portrait of the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to musically coded proxies for the composer himself and the object of his hopeless midlife crush.
Open rehearsals begin at 10:00am and end at 12:30pm, with a short intermission.
Open rehearsals are suitable for high school groups. For school groups interested in purchasing tickets, please visit our Group Discounts page.
Concert Extras
A prerehearsal talk by Sarah Cahill will be presented from the stage. Free to all ticketholders.
Please note that concessions are not available during Open Rehearsal events.
Sponsors
Open rehearsals are endowed by a bequest from The Estate of Katharine Hanrahan.
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