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Ravel & Shostakovich

Name: Ravel & Shostakovich
Start: 2024-09-21T20:00:00
Location: Benaroya Hall

Seattle Symphony

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Our Symphonic Series opens with music born from great conflicts of the 20th Century. Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony dates from the darkest days of the Second World War, when making music scarcely seemed possible. He dedicated it to all victims of oppression. Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot begins a season-long celebration marking 150 years since Maurice Ravel’s birth with Concerto for the Left Hand. Composed for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his ...

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8

Composer

Pierre Boulez - Livre pour cordes

Maurice Ravel - Concerto for the Left Hand

Participants

Ludovic Morlot

Conductor

Bertrand Chamayou

Piano

Seattle Symphony

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