BSO Music Presents: Alsop Conducts Chopin & Prokofiev
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Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall 1212 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Courtesy of the BSO
Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop, conductor
Hayato Sumino, piano
JAMES LEE III Chuphshah! Harriet’s Drive to Canaan
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 4
Music Director Laureate Marin Alsop leads a larger-than-life program inspired by real heroes and mythical archetypes. As one of his staunch champions, Maestra Alsop brings back James Lee III’s BSO-commissioned tribute to Harriet Tubman, praised by The Washington Post for its “bursts of tonal color.” Prokofiev's lithe and lively Fourth Symphony, initially a ballet depicting the parable of The Prodigal Son, traces a hero's foray into the outside world with vibrant, dance-infused drama. Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino, semifinalist and crowd favorite at the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, joins the BSO in a thrilling concerto by Chopin, whose ebullient, finger-twisting compositions broke all pianistic conventions.