Saturday, May 18, 2024, 8pm
All Saints Parish
1773 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02445

Tickets are $20 online or $25 at the door for general admission, $15 for seniors, $10 for students, and free for children 12 & under.

COVID Policy: You do not need to show proof of vaccination or a negative test result to enter All Saints Parish. To ensure the safety of everyone, the members of Brookline Symphony Orchestra are fully vaccinated and we strongly recommend our audience members to wear a mask. Please stay home if you are sick or have COVID-19 symptoms; you have been directed to self-isolate or quarantine; or you are awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test. Note: These policies are subject to change as the COVID-19 pandemic and community transmission rates evolve.

Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4

Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.

Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 is his orchestral arrangement, in collaboration with Franz Doppler, of his second Hungarian Rhapsody for solo piano. The Hungarian-born composer and pianist was strongly influenced by the music heard in his youth, particularly Hungarian folk music, with its unique gypsy scale. 

Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus Arcticus

Einojuhani Rautavaara was a Finnish composer of classical music. Rautavaara wrote a great number of works spanning various styles. These include eight symphonies, nine operas and twelve concertos, as well as numerous vocal and chamber works.

Finnish composer Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus was commissioned by the University of Oulu for its first doctoral degree ceremony in 1972. Subtitled Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, it incorporates tape recordings of birdsong recorded near the Arctic Circle, and on the bogs of Liminka, in northern Finland.

Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 6

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them," and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of his time."

Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6 was composed for the Vienna Philharmonic in 1880. The piece is often said to have similarities to symphonies by Brahms and Beethoven, as well as references to Czech folk tunes. In April, 1881, a critic for a Czech paper wrote: “This new Dvořák symphony simply excels over all others of the same type within contemporary musical literature….In truth, the work (Symphony no. 6) has an imminently Czech nature, just as Dvořák continues along the basis of his great and fluent power, the tree of which is decorated by the ever more beautiful fruits of his creation.”