Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
Curtis Symphony Orchestra
PROGRAM
LILI BOULANGER D'un matin de printemps
BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2: The Age of Anxiety
RAVEL Shéhérazade, Three Poems of Tristan Klingsor for Voice and Orchestra
DEBUSSY La Mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre
Witness the breathtaking culmination of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra’s 2024–25 series as acclaimed pianist and Curtis alumna Yuja Wang takes center stage. Celebrated for her “exceptional power, depth, and dazzle” (Los Angeles Times), Yuja collaborates with award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin to deliver Leonard Bernstein’s (Conducting ’41) astonishing, jazz-influenced Symphony No. 2: The Age of Anxiety.
This delightful program also features three French masterpieces, including Lili Boulanger’s joyful D’un matin de Printemps (“Of a Spring Morning”), Maurice Ravel’s sumptuous orchestral song cycle Shéhérazade, and Claude Debussy’s evocative childhood recollections of the sea, the atmospheric symphonic sketches, La mer.