2020 OMF Festival Season Brochure

Thursday
June Sunday 30, 7:30 p.m.
MUSIC June 21, FOR 4:00 p.m.
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
TCHAIKOVSKY PATHETIQUE
First United Methodist Church, Portland
Hannah Consenz, lyric-coloratura soprano
David Pomeroy, tenor
Portland Symphonic Choir
Oregon Festival Orchestra
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
Bruckner: Psalm 150
Zoltán Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, Op. 13
Oregon Premiere
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74
“Pathetique”
SENZ
The festival’s summer edition kicks off with blockbuster
choral/orchestral works and a symphony
that pushed the genre to new frontiers.
Bruckner’s Psalm 150 and Kodálys Psalmus
Hugaricus open the concert. The former is a
majestic work which in every way embodies the
essence of 19th-century Romanticism. Zoltan
Kodály’s setting of Psalm 55 is Bruckner’s stylistic
counterpart. Written to commemorate Hungary’s
tragic past, the piece is a dramatic setting of
the Psalmist’s words “Give ear to my prayer, oh
God.” Tchaikovsky’s opinion about his Symphony
No. 6 was that it was his best work. Rather than
the French term “Pathetique” that was attached
to work after his death, the English translation of
the Russian subtitle “Passionate” is a more appropriate
description.
TICKETS
Tickets start at $35
Senior and student discount pricing available
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