Cancelled

THE PLANETS + CERRONE PREMIERE

April 2-3, 2021 | Music Hall

Cancelled

These concerts are cancelled due to the continuing COVID health crisis. View ticket options.

Program

ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR: Aeriality
CHRISTOPHER CERRONE: Concerto for Trumpet, Tuba and Orchestra [CSO Commission, World Premiere]
HOLST: The Planets

Artists

Kahchun Wong , conductor
Robert Sullivan , trumpet
Christopher Olka , tuba
Women of the May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director

Venue

Music Hall

Ticket Prices

From $14

Series

Series 2

What's Interesting

Movements of The Planets, like Mars and Jupiter, remain forever culturally top of mind.
A new work from Brooklyn-based composer Christopher Cerrone puts CSO Principals Robert Sullivan and Christopher Olka center stage.
Aeriality achieves sounds “so alive…that it simultaneously achieves a state of stasis and of transformation” (The New Yorker).

What Critics Are Saying

“[Cerrone’s] instrumental writing has the quality of glittery, half-lighted surfaces enhanced by Postminimalist patterns. His vocal style is lyrical and owes a debt to John Adams. There are fanciful dramatic outbursts as well, but mostly the score sounds as if it floats, very agreeably, on an acoustical cushion slightly lighter than air.”

—L.A. Times

“The young Brooklyn composers with whom Cerrone is identified are known for blurring lines between indie pop and classical music. Cerrone’s compositions eschew these flirtations; his music displays rhythmic flexibility and a grittiness often missing in his colleagues’ works.”

—LA Weekly