[BROADCAST] Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Encore Performances: Adès & Lutosławski
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Thomas Adès – Asyla
Witold Lutosławski – Symphony No. 3
In 2018 and 2019, the Director of Tanglewood’s world-renowned Festival of Contemporary Music was BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès, who has achieved fame as a composer, pianist, and conductor.
A concert from the TMC Orchestra always puts the exclamation point on the end of the five-day festival. Adès’s 1997 work Asyla has been noted for its symphony-like form – but in place of third-movement Minuet or scherzo, the composer evokes electronic dance music’s hypnotic energy. Polish composer Witold Lutosławski’s Symphony No. 3, premiered in 1983, has been heard by some as a protest against martial law in Poland in the early 1980s, its opening outburst likened to “fate knocking on the door” as in Beethoven’s Fifth. Lutosławski himself was vague on the issue, noting: “If we agree that music can mean anything extra-musical, it nevertheless remains ambiguous meaning. But man has a single soul and whatever he experiences in life must have some influence on him.”
About the series: Video streamed full-length concerts on Monday evenings of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra chosen from Tanglewood’s vast archive of recorded performances. Each will be introduced by Stefan Asbury, with guests.
Available August 10, 2020 at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific, through August 17.
Reserve video here: https://www.bso.org/seat/SelectYourOwnPerformance/102506
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