Richmond Symphony: Johnson Plays Bartók April 30, 2010

Altria Masterworks, celebrated as the series for the “classical music explorer,” will fill the Carpenter Theatre again with repertoire both renowned and newly-commissioned, with recently-appointed Music Director Steven Smith conducting six of the eight programs. Highlights include the season premiere featuring Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and a new composition by Richmond native Mason Bates. Richmond Symphony musicians Neal Cary, cello, and Karen Johnson, violin, are each featured on Masterworks concerts in November and April respectively, and the piano concerto continues as a Carpenter Theatre mainstay with pianist Dmitri Shteinberg performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in October and Awadagin Pratt performing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in February. The Masterworks season closes with Erin R. Freeman conducting the orchestra and chorus in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis—the first work ever performed by the Richmond Symphony Chorus in 1971 under founder James Erb.

Carpenter Theatre
Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Sunday matinees at 3 pm

Steven Smith, Conductor
Karen Johnson, Violin

Barber School for Scandal

Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2

Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

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