The LSO opens it's season with the 2nd Symphony of Beethoven -- but only after the Second Piano Concerto of Chopin, with Simon Mulligan, the best Chopin chops this side of the Atlantic. The season continues with an overpowering centennial remembrance of Armistice Day, in November -- with violinist Tessa Lark -- and then, another pair of glittering Holiday concerts with a throng of our young musicians; and in March, an exciting new format for our “Rising Stars Concerto Competition!” We’ll host a salute to more of the best of John Williams in April, with the phenomenal young violinist Yevgeny Kutik; in May, Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” in the tango style, with the unforgettable Lara St. John, and to round things out, the eternally youthful genius of Mendelssohn’s G-Minor Piano Concerto, in the supreme hands of my collaborator in this work, Frederic Chiu, paired with Modest Mussorgsk own eternal musical monument to the human spirit, the “Pictures at an Exhibition,” in the radiant orchestration by Maurice Ravel.
