Slatkin's Legacy

Item details

Date

Sunday, Oct 27, 2024 3:00PM

Name

Slatkin's Legacy - A Birthday Celebration

Description

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Cindy McTee Timepiece
Domenico Scarlatti / arr. Leonard Slatkin Five Sonatas for Orchestral Wind Ensemble
Daniel Slatkin Voyager 130 (U.S. Premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

📍 This concert takes place at Touhill Performing Arts Center 
🕒 1 hour, 45 min (including intermission)

The community gathers to celebrate a milestone. Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin brings a lifetime of experience to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, music of deeply personal emotions. Cindy McTee winds the orchestra like a clock, then lets it spin. Daniel Slatkin reaches into the cosmos for a work that uses music from the spacecraft Voyager’s golden record. And five of Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas are given new life in Leonard's arrangements.

A few things to know:

• In Timepiece, Cindy McTee explores musical time. The piece begins slowly, "before" time. Then a clock-like pulse emerges, takes control, and provides the driving force behind a sustained, highly energized second section.
• Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony opens with a melody he associated with “fate.” Over almost an hour, the melody is shifted, played with, transformed, and finally overcome in music of exuberance and exhilarating celebration.
• At 80, Leonard Slatkin is as busy as he has ever been. His latest book, Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century: A Study Guide for Conductors and Orchestras, provides an almost bar-by-bar analysis of eight scores, detailing the decisions the conductor must make to bring these works to life. He continues to write and arrange music.