Program:

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air
Esmail: Ram Tori Maya
Plus solos by the winners of the 2024–2025 Competition for Young Musicians

(Inside the Music, 7–7:15 p.m.)

The talented winners of our annual Competition for Young Musicians, Ariel Pawlik-Zwiebel and Olivia Luan, are featured in this evening packed with musical inspiration and variety.

Olivia Luan will perform as soloist for the 1st movement of Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, by Grieg, and Ariel Pawlik-Zwiebel will be soloist in the 1st movement of the Violin Concerto by Sibelius.

The opening work will be a unique collaboration among LAS, the Cantabella Children’s Chorus, and two dancers performing “Ram Tori Maya,” beautiful music of Indian-American composer Reena Esmail. Johannes Brahms caused a sensation with his marvelous “Academic Festival Overture,” using raucous melodies sung by students. The sweeping sounds of young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Symphonic Variations on an African Air ” embellish a rarely performed masterwork you won’t want to miss!

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