Fri Oct 9 – Sat Oct 10 · 8:00pm/12:00pm
Hemenway Strings: Let My People Go— The Four Seasons Then and Now
Fri Oct 9 · 8:00pm, Seully Hall (Boston (Fenway)) / Sat Oct 10 · 12:00pm, Roxbury Public Library
Lynn Chang directs the Conservatory's string ensemble in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, its sonnets rewritten for a changing climate and each concerto taken by a different student soloist, alongside Dvořák's Waltzes Nos. 1 and 4, Op. 54, spirituals arranged by H.T. Burleigh, music from Philip Glass's Mishima quartet, and Randall Thompson's Alleluia in memory of former Conservatory president Richard Ortner. The second performance moves to Roxbury Public Library.