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Tanaka Trumpet Concerto with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra
September 3 @ 7:00 PM CEST
In Verse of Light, the trumpet stands up for human creativity in the struggle between the analog and the digital. The work was written for MSO’s honorary artist Håkan Hardenberger by the orchestra’s Composer in Association, Karen Tanaka.
Sergei Prokofjev remained hopeful about the future even as the Second World War raged. In his Symphony No. 5, he celebrates the strength of the human spirit with vibrant energy, playful vitality and soaring, ethereal melodies.
When Chief Conductor Martyn Brabbins steps onto the podium to open the season, however, he begins in the company of the legendary Don Juan — the elegant bon vivant portrayed in a sweeping tone poem that marked the great breakthrough of the 24-year-old Richard Strauss.