(soft dramatic music) (bright electronic music) (no audio) (orchestra tuning) (orchestra tuning continues) (orchestra tuning continues) (audience applauding) (audience applauding continues) (gentle horn music) (gentle horn music continues) (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (soft dramatic music) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (soft dramatic music) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (soft dramatic music continues) (bright orchestral music) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (audience applauding) (audience applauds and cheers) - Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to tonight's performance.

I am Jonathon Heyward, the music director of this brilliant orchestra (audience applauding) you see behind me.

Tonight is an exploration of Robert Schumann, the great composer, through music.

If Robert Schumann was still with us today, he would've probably likely been diagnosed with bipolar disorder or manic depression.

He lived a very difficult life, but what's so beautiful about his life and so extraordinary about his life is how he persevered through with music.

He did it very eloquently through his symphonies, which we'll hear later on this evening, but he also was really inspired by the music of others, such as Bach, which is why we decided to play Webern's transcription of a Bach fugue.

And later on, we'll be playing Bach's "Keyboard Concerto in A major" with Conrad Tao.

But before we get to the "Keyboard Concerto," we have a very exciting world premier.

Throughout Schumann's letters, he often writes about this void within him, this uncomfortable void, this concerning void.

And that is the inspiration of the piece that we're about to hear this evening, written by Hannah Kendall.

The piece is titled, "He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing."

I hope you enjoy the world premiere of Hannah Kendall's piece, thank you.

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One of my favorite things about that Bach concerto that you just heard is how digital it is (audience chuckling) and how sparkly it is.

And so in that spirit, I'd like to play a piece by a great American composer, Elliot Carter.

- Woo!

- Woo!

- Woo!

- Woo, woo!

(audience applauding) I hear a mixed murmur.

(audience laughing) This is a piece called "Caténaires."

And in French, caténaires literally translates to catenaries, but colloquially in French, caténaires means "power lines."

And this piece was composed in 2006, at which time, Carter was at least 90 years old.

(audience chuckling) So keep that in mind.

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