The Chelsea Symphony’s October 25 and 26 concert features Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst

The Chelsea Symphony’s October 25 and 26 concert features Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst

Also on the Program is Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony and Twilight Song, a World Premiere concert opener by TCS resident composer Aaron Dai

Concertos include Mozart’s Concerto for Horn, No. 4, Jennifer Higdon’s Soliloquy for English Horn and Strings, Carl Maria von Weber’s Andante & Hungarian Rondo, and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Horn Concerto No. 2

For Immediate Release - (New York, NY)  — The second concert, Made of Stars, on The Chelsea Symphony’s 2019/2020 season, RISE UP: Music that Inspires and Uplifts, on October 25 and 26 is a chamber orchestra concert featuring Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst, a work for string orchestra that plays on the imagery of rapidly changing musical colors by using exploding gestures juxtaposed with gentle fleeting melodies to create a multidimensional soundscape.

Starburst by Jessie Montgomery was commissioned by the Sphinx Organization and premiered in 2012. Packing a big punch in just three and a half minutes, it “reflects today’s fashionable motoric, pop-oriented, post-minimalist style, albeit with memorable melodies, structural discipline, and not one cliché in the book” (Classics Today).

Also on the concert is Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” and Twilight Song, a World Premiere by TCS resident composer and founding member, Aaron Dai.

Concertos on this series include Mozart’s Concerto No. 4 for Horn with Peter DelGrosso (Friday night 10/25 only), Jennifer Higdon’s Soliloquy for English Horn and Strings with Jason Smoller (Friday night 10/25 only), Carl Maria von Weber’s Andante & Hungarian Rondo for bassoon with Tilden Marbit (Saturday night 10/26 only), and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Horn Concerto No. 2 with Adam Schommer (Saturday night 10/26 only).
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Offering seven concert series from September 2019 through June 2020, The Chelsea Symphony’s 2019/20 season RISE UP features orchestral works that inspire and uplift.

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Limited day-of tickets are available at the door for a suggested donation of $20.

For more information, interview inquiries, and press tickets contact Elizabeth Holub, elizabeth.holub@chelseasymphony.org, 520-977-7007.

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