Pre-concert lecture at 7:15PM in the Lower Lobby.

Oriol Sans, conductor.

Works by two 20th-century American composers comprise the first half of this UPO concert: Aaron Copland’s acclaimed suite from the opera The Tender Land, and Samuel Barber’s mysterious Music for a Scene of Shelley, written as incidental music for a scene from Prometheus Unbound. Following the mystery and somber colors that also characterize the opening of the last work on this concert, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, lively and cheerful music will impose and remain until its startling conclusion.