Beethoven 8 and Florence Price
In-Theatre Performance at the Schuster Center & Live Stream Premiere. The performance stream will be available for on demand viewing through June 30, 2021.
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Beethoven 8 and Florence Price
FLORENCE PRICE Violin Concerto No. 2 and BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
JESSICA HUNG Violin /NEAL GITTLEMAN Artistic Director and Conductor
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra is thrilled to be back on stage in the Schuster Center with a live audience for their first Masterworks Concert of the New Year!
The concert opens with Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Price once wrote in a letter to conductor Serge Koussevitzky, “To begin with I have two handicaps – those of sex and race. I am a woman; and I have some Negro blood in my veins,” adding “I would like to be judged on merit alone.” (www.npr.com) Merit, indeed, as her talent sparkles in this beautiful work. Concertmaster Jessica Hung takes center stage to perform Price’s composition.
Then, continuing our two-year celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, the DPO performs his Symphony No. 8, a short, spirited work composed between two much more famous symphonies, yet a definite force in its own right that celebrates the composer’s playful side.
Two live, socially distanced, in-theatre performances with no intermission in the Schuster Center OR enjoy a live-stream option from the comfort of home.
The Schuster Center
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.
