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Thursday
July 9, 7:30 p.m.
BRAHMS
SYMPHONY No. 3
Lincoln Performance Hall, PSU
Wojciech Błażejczyk, electric guitar
Oregon Festival Orchestra
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
Smetana: Vltava (Moldau)
from My Country
Wojciech Błażejczyk: Concerto for Electric Guitar,
Orchestra & Electronics
OMF commission; world premiere
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
This program opens with Czech composer
Bedřich Smetana’s devoutly patriotic work
Vltava, popularly known by its German title,
Moldau. Second in a set of six symphonic poems
depicting scenes of the countryside, history, or
legends of Bohemia, Vltava captures a love of
homeland by tracing the flow of the river from
its source in the mountains, passing through
the landscape through day and night until, as
a mighty river, it triumphantly enters Prague.
Following the world premiere of Polish composer
Wojciech Błażejczyk’s OMF commission, we turn
back to a classical approach to symphony, a
work that may have been inspired by the great
monument celebrating the German nation. The
Symphony No. 3 is the shortest and most compactly
constructed of Brahms’ symphonies, surely
one of his most poetic and evocative works.
TICKETS
Tickets start at $35
Senior and student discount pricing available
22.