Symphonic Overture: Boulder Symphony’s Season Opener

Dates and Times for this Past Event

• Sunday, Sep 29, 2024  2pm - 4pm
• Saturday, Sep 28, 2024  2pm - 4pm
• Saturday, Sep 28, 2024  7:30pm - 9:30pm

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Symphonic Overture: Boulder Symphony’s Season Opener

The legacy of Florence Price, a composer of great talent, finds itself at a crossroads in 2024 with Boulder Symphony’s performance of great symphonies from neglected and traditionally underrepresented composers and the 2009 discovery of a treasure trove of her works at her summer home in St. Anne, Illinois—where scores were strewn on the floor after an apparent robbery. The home’s new owners contacted the University of Arkansas and donated the scores to Price’s archive.

An important step in the long march for equality is to showcase voices that symphonic music has failed to represent in the past by performing, recording, teaching, and sharing the life and work of Florence Price.

In addition to Price’s Symphony No. 1—a Colorado premiere—Boulder Symphony will perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, in its longstanding relationship with the International Keyboard Odyssiad & Festival Competition (IKOF). The 2024 gold medal recipient of the IKOF Complete Concerto Division, Artem Kuznetsov, will dazzle the audience with his passionate and virtuosic performance of this piano concerto.

Program:
* Antonín Dvořák - “Slavonic Dance” No. 1 in C major, Op. 46
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
* Featuring Artem Kuznetsov, Gold Medal, Complete Concerto Division, International Keyboard Odyssiad & Festival Competition
* Florence Price - Symphony No. 1 in E minor (Colorado premiere)

Devin Patrick Hughes, Conductor

Artem Kuznetsov, Piano