Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and University Chorale at Millennium Park May 30, 2010

Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Maria Bachmann, violin soloist

John Corigliano’s The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra is a set of variations based on his Oscar-winning score for the 1998 film. This richly eclectic and poetic work encompasses classical elegance, gypsy passion, and angst-ridden harmonies. The baroque device of a repeated chord pattern — a chaconne — gives an overarching sense of unity to the film’s episodic story line, resulting in a set of remarkably imaginative variations on a theme of haunting pathos. Violin soloist Maria Bachmann was hailed by the New York Times as “a violinist of soul and patrician refinement.” The program also includes Franz Liszt’s A Faust Symphony.

Presented by the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra at the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music.

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Official Website: http://www.millenniumpark.org/parkevents/event.aspx?id=1060