For 50 years, you have been instrumental in thousands of performances in this space. For 50 years, you have listened and responded.
And it is our great pleasure to share this musical Everest, this cornerstone of artistic output, with you, our dear audience. It is my great privilege to share this new stage with the incomparable musicians of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, who will interpret and form every note of this cycle with passion, detail, verve and love. I can conceive of no better way to explore every inch of this new space than with a fresh take on this most complete and all-encompassing of symphonic cycles. I cannot think of a state of mind that is not in one way or another expressed through this music.Īs we begin our 50th anniversary season, we also begin our next artistic chapter in a reinvigorated Southam Hall with its glorious new shell and acoustic. Joy, passion, warmth, mourning, hope, loss, melancholy, peace, victory, struggle, solidarity, desperation, reverence, simplicity. And why? In order to express, through the abstract language of music, the most fundamental and tangible shared emotions of humankind. He demands rigour and attention of performers and listeners alike. He challenges the orchestra to be its best.
From the classical strains of his first to the universal themes of his last, there is not a single note out of place, not a single bar wasted, not a single idea unexplored. Over the course of these nine masterpieces, Beethoven evolved not just his own music, but revolutionized all of music in a way and at a pace hitherto unprecedented. The Beethoven symphonies are central to the life of musicians and audiences.
0 kommentar(er)
