Scottish Chamber Orchestra: America, The Beautiful

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Update (2nd March 2022)

Owing to personal circumstances, Pekka Kuusisto is unable to join the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for this concert.

Violinist/director Hugo Ticciati will replace Pekka for this concert, with a few program changes.  If you'd like to find out more about Hugo, you can read his biography on the SCO’S website: https://www.sco.org.uk/profile/hugo-ticciati

Updated program

America, The Beautiful 

18 March City Halls, Glasgow 

Hugo Ticciati: Director / Violin

 GLASS Symphony No 3*

STRAVINSKY Concerto in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks' 

BARBER Adagio for Strings 

COPLAND 'Appalachian Spring': Suite 

Pekka Kuusisto director / violin 

AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL 

STRAVINSKY Concerto in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks' 

NICO MUHLY Violin Concerto, 'Shrink' (Co-commissioned by Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Recital Centre, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra with the kind support of the MCO Foundation and Scottish Chamber Orchestra) : UK premiere 

MAZZOLI Dissolve, Oh my Heart 

BARBER Adagio for Strings 

COPLAND Appalachian Spring: Suite 

Take a classic American road trip through a travelogue of unforgettable musical landscapes and eras, with brilliant violinist Pekka Kuusisto as your expert guide. 

Copland looked far back to the wide open spaces and earliest US settlers for the rural idyll of his captivating Appalachian Spring, while Barber summoned dignity in the face of tragedy in his deeply moving Adagio, famously heard at the funerals of FDR and JFK. Stravinsky, on the other hand, took the title of his mischievous chamber concerto ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ from an opulent country estate in Washington, DC. 

Kuusisto brings things bang up to date with fruits from his close musical relationships with two of the hippest, most exciting young US voices, both straddling the worlds of rock and classical. Bryce Dessner plays with indie rock band The National, while Nico Muhly has collaborated with musicians from Philip Glass to Björk, as well as writing operas and concertos: his Shrink is a dazzling violin workout composed specially for Kuusisto. 

sco.org.uk/america 

Kindly supported by the SCO American Development Fund