“Through whirling clouds, waltzing couples may be faintly distinguished. The clouds gradually scatter… an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd…”
– Maurice Ravel, Preface to La Valse

In splendidly chandeliered halls where no vestige of shadow exists, the waltz presides; it is an excuse for wickedly transgressive intimacy, a promise of reveries. The waltz, with its intoxicating and ensnaring circularity, is also the perfect guise for time’s ravages. In the words of Maurice Ravel: “This dance may seem tragic, like any other emotion – voluptuousness, joy – pushed to the extreme.”

If Schubert’s Symphony No. 7 “Unfinished” captured the golden moment of European Romanticism at its height, a hundred years later, Ravel’s 1920 La valse met with a world making sense amidst shambles and destruction of the “Great War”; opulence made carcasses by shadows that even the most impressive illuminations could not chase away. Caught at the crossfire of change (and another World War), Korngold, and the world he inhabited, grappled with the tragedies and triumphs of humanity’s folly-filled search for its better angels.

This is music of ‘unfinished business’; the unfinished works, unfinished stories, unfinished pursuits of peace. Come join us for this concert featuring the YST Orchestral Institute, as well as YST Concerto Competition prizewinner violinist Tsao Wei-Chun (BMus3) who will perform Korngold’s Violin Concerto.

Supported by the Shaw Foundation Ones to Watch series.

PROGRAMME

Orchestral Institute
with
Jason Lai, Conductor
Tsao Wei-Chun (BMus3), Violin

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 7 in B Minor D. 759 “Unfinished”

– 15 minutes intermission –

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

MAURICE RAVEL
La valse, A Choreographic Poem  

TICKETING INFORMATION

Tickets at $5-10 via yst.eventbrite.com.

Out of respect for the participants and other spectators, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.

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