Musgrave and Schumann

Sci-fi meets rococo in Missy Mazzoli’s mind-blowing tone poem Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), which opens this space-inspired program. The evening’s main number is Thea Musgrave’s oboe concerto Helios, performed by German soloist Juri Vallentin, in which we follow the Greek sun god’s journey across the firmament. Robert Schumann’s more earth-oriented, jubilant First Symphony, also called the “Spring Symphony,” finally brings us back down to eart...