Wed Jan 27 · 7:30pm
NEC Philharmonia + Hugh Wolff: Assad, Rachmaninoff, and Schumann
Hugh Wolff, NEC's Director of Orchestras, conducts the Philharmonia in Clarice Assad's Boitatá, named for the fire serpent of Brazilian folklore, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra, and Schumann's Symphony No. 3, the Rhenish, written in 1850 in the composer's first months in Düsseldorf. Assad, a Brazilian-American composer and pianist, is the daughter of the guitarist Sérgio Assad.