Sibelius & Shostakovich
OCTOBER 19 & 20, 2019
Saturday at 8 PM
Sunday at 2 PM
Part of TŌN’s Fisher Center concert series
Xinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ powerful violin concerto. Then Shostakovich’s symphony, his first written after the death of Stalin, takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.