Also Sprach Zarathustra
 

SIMONE YOUNG conducts
NATHAN OLSON violin

ARVO PÄRT Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
BRITTEN Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra
STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
 

          

Millions of movie fans the world over have heard the grand fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra at the beginning of Kubrick’s epic film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

But if you’ve never heard it live, you’re in for a thrill — a multitude of brasses, the full orchestra, and the Lay Family Concert Organ, all hailing a primeval sunrise.

To open the concert, Co-Concertmaster Nathan Olson solos in Britten’s fiendishly difficult Violin Concerto.