Name: 3rd Symphony Concerto: Automatic
Start: 2024-11-11T00:00:00
Location: Opernplatz

Sarah McElravy

Stephan Zilias

Staatstheater Hannover

The 3rd Symphony Concert: Automatic was originally planned as a concert in our more than music series , which expands the boundaries of the traditional concert experience through performance. The program included a joint world premiere by composers Marko Nikodijević and Robert Henke - a concert for automatic percussion and orchestra. The two popular and experimental composers like to explore the dream of an automated life in their music. In real life, however, not everything always runs automatically, let alone according to plan - for organizational reasons, this world premiere in our concert unfortunately has to be canceled. Instead, we will hear another work by Marko Nikodijević that premiered just over a year ago: Gospodi vozvah for solo viola and orchestra. We are delighted that we were able to persuade Canadian violist Sarah McElravy to rehearse the work at short notice and thus welcome her to our concert stage for the first time. The viola concerto is accompanied by Sergei Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead and excerpts from Peter Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker . As if in a dream, The Isle of the Dead