Arkansas Symphony Orchestra performs piano variations by Rachmaninoff this weekend

ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 
RACHMANINOFF PAGANINI VARIATIONS FOR PIANO
SATURDAY 2/25-SUNDAY 2/26. Robinson Middle. 7:30 p.m. Sat.; 3 p.m Solar. $19-$77.

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s subsequent installment of its Masterworks Sequence revolves round pianist George Li, a visiting instrumentalist so distinguished that he was written about by The New York Instances and the Washington Put up when he was solely 16, the identical age he was when he carried out for Barack and Michelle Obama.

Li and the symphony will play “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” a 1934 concertante with 24 variations by Russian-American composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was identified for spotlighting the piano in a lot of his oeuvre. With Andrew Crust as visitor conductor, the ASO will even do renditions of William Grant Nonetheless’s “Symphony No. 1” (1930) — the primary symphony by a Black composer carried out for an American viewers by a significant orchestra — and “Montgomery Variations” (1964) by Margaret Bonds, one other seminal Black composer. 

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