Colburn Orchestra: Brahms Symphony No. 3

The season opens with an evening of soulful masterworks rife with musical and emotional turmoil. In Nielsen’s single-movement concerto, the virtuosic clarinet wages war with an insistent snare drum while the work shifts between key signatures, textures, and styles. The battle continues in Brahms’s Third Symphony, which exudes the composer’s characteristic angst as it alternates between major and minor, outcries and whispers. The tragic tale of lo...