If you are yearning to hear a world-class soloist in your own backyard, you may want to cosider attending the Stamford Symphony concert on Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. or Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. International superstar Sarah Chang will play Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto, a piece that she will record in May for release in the fall. Ms. Chang was a 1999 winner of the Avery Fisher Prize and was recently identified by Newsweek as one of the Twenty Top Women on Leadership. She has played with many of the major orchestras of the world including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. Martha Argerich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yefim Bronfman, Yo-Yo Ma and Pinchas Zuckerman are some of the major artists that she has collaborated with.
This interesting program which is called "Romancing Sarah Chang",
features Anton Webern's Langsamer Satz and Felix Mendelssohn's popular Symphony #3, the Scottish. Conductor Eckart Preu will deliver a pre-concert lecture one hour before the concert where he will speak about these pieces and their composers.
