Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 PM in the lower lobby.

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor, Amy Porter, flute

The USO presents a program of great orchestral classics inspired by stories of fate, destiny, and star-crossed love. SMTD professor Amy Porter is the flute soloist in the beautiful and affecting Elegiac Concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, which was commissioned in 2014 by a consortium of institutions including SMTD.

PROGRAM: Verdi- “Overture” to La Forza del Destino; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich- Elegiac Concerto; Wagner- “Prelude” and “Liebestod” from Tristan and Isolde; Ravel- Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2