Modesto Symphony Orchestra

Rachmaninoff & Sibelius

Friday, November 11, 2022 at 7:30pm

Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 7:30pm

Conductor Nicholas Hersh will lead the MSO for the Rachmaninoff & Sibelius concerts. This program gives us the opportunity to hear Hersh’s arrangement of the second movement of Schubert’s famous string quartet, Death and the Maiden. Then pianist George Li will be featured on Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the program will finish with Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5. This breathtaking beauty captures 16 soaring swans when the strings mimic the fluttering of wings and a glorious, arching theme played by the French horns.

Gallo Center for the Arts, Modesto

Nicholas Hersh, conductor

George Li, piano

Schubert (arr. Hersh)     Variations on String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, “Death and the Maiden”, Mvt. II

Rachmaninoff               Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Sibelius                         Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major