Beethoven And Superman - Featuring Beethoven's Violin Concerto
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Stefan Jackiw, violin
Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, violin
Erik Gratton, flute
Ann Richards, flute
Beethoven - Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61
Michael Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony
In May of 2007, Nashville audiences cheered Michael Daugherty's
piano concerto Deus Ex Machina. This time, we hear what work catapulted
Daugherty to international fame — the Metropolis Symphony. Critic David
Hurwitz called this suite based on the Superman comic strip "jazzy,
snazzy, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a
locomotive." The concert begins with 20-year-old prodigy Stefan Jackiw
performing Beethoven's immortal Violin Concerto.
Featured Instruments:
Violin
Flute
Interesting Facts:
> Recognized as one of the most significant artists of his
generation, Jackiw was born to physicist parents — his father is a
professor at MIT and his mother is a professor at Boston University.
> A connection to pop world infuses Daugherty's music at every
level; some of the titles of his works are Elvis Everywhere, Dead
Elvis, Jackie O, Niagara Falls, Le Tombeau de Liberace and Spaghetti
Western for Orchestra.