Saturday, May 23, 2020, 7:30pm
The Finnish
Line
Yaniv Dinur, Music Director
The Finnish Line
In light of the health and safety restrictions imposed on public gatherings in response to the coronavirus outbreak, this concert has been canceled. If you have tickets for our May 23 concert, you have three options: donation, exchange, or refund. You may donate them as a tax-deductible contribution to the NBSO, exchange them for a future concert, or request a refund by emailing asmith@nbsymphony.org or calling the NBSO office at (508) 999-6276 and leaving a message. (We are currently working remotely but are checking voice mail and will return your call as soon as possible.)
Lotta Wennakoski: Hava
Kalevi Aho: “Sieidi” Percussion Concerto
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Yaniv Dinur, Conductor
Cynthia Yeh, Percussion
Chicago Symphony’s principal percussionist, Cynthia Yeh, demonstrates her astonishing mastery in Kalevi Aho’s Percussion Concerto. The orchestra opens this all-Finnish concert with Lotta Wennakoski’s intangible music and closes with Sibelius’s majestic Fifth Symphony in what is bound to be an unforgettable season finale.
Join Music Director Yaniv Dinur in the theater at 6:30pm for a free pre-concert talk.
Reception Sponsors
Concert Sponsors
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Our educational programs serve over 25,000 children a year, and we are recognized nationally for our innovative approach and high impact. We all know of the documented benefits of children learning music, and we firmly believe that by introducing classical music to a new generation of students through our programs, we are helping them to make critical connections between music and their everyday lives, making their NBSO experience enriching on multiple levels.
Your donations make possible our innovative educational programs.
Our educational programs serve over 25,000 children a year, and we are recognized nationally for our innovative approach and high impact. We all know of the documented benefits of children learning music, and we firmly believe that by introducing classical music to a new generation of students through our programs, we are helping them to make critical connections between music and their everyday lives, making their NBSO experience enriching on multiple levels.
