Pre-concert talk at 7 PM

Aaron Berofksy, violin
Earl Lee, conductor & Music Director

Brian Raphael NABORS Pulse
Felix MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
Gala FLAGELLO Vitality
Béla BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

Longtime A2SO concertmaster Aaron Berofsky takes the stage to perform Mendelssohn’s sparkling and virtuosic Violin Concerto, a work that established a central place in the repertoire from its very first performance and a definitive musical statement of the early Romantics.

Music Director Earl Lee directs Bartók’s powerful, propulsive, and captivatingly approachable Concerto for Orchestra, a commission that allegedly so inspired the leukemia-stricken composer that he immediately checked himself out of the hospital to begin writing. The program also explores themes of life, nature, and self-expression with Alabama-born Brian Nabors’ Pulse for Orchestra, and University of Michigan alumnus Gala Flagello’s Vitality.

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4049/4057 for more detail.