IN THE JOYOUS LIGHT
The TMF 2024 Symphony Hall Gala Concert Event
featuring world-renowned
PIANIST JONATHAN BISS
“IN THE JOYOUS LIGHT” is a potent lyric from Terezín composer Viktor Ullmann’s last songs set to poems by Friedrich Hölderlin. We’ll experience these transcendent works plus the world premieres of two exciting new TMF commissions. Jonathan Biss caps our evening with a performance of Schubert’s sublime and life-affirming Piano Sonata No. 22 in A Major, D.959.
OUR CONCERT PROGRAM
Concert produced and directed by MARK LUDWIG
Viktor Ullmann
Drei Lieder (Terezín, 1944)
A setting of poems by Friedrich Hölderlin
ELIZABETH BLANCKE-BIGGS, soprano
MICHAEL RECCHIUTI, piano
I. Sonnenuntergang
II. Der Frühling
III. Abendphantasie
Bosba
“i see others like me”
TMF commission world premiere
A setting of a TMF-commissioned poem by Fanny Howe
CORO ALLEGRO, directed by David Hodgkins
Tyson Gholston Davis
“…Expansions of Light” for solo piano
A TMF commission Symphony Hall premiere
JONATHAN BISS, piano
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata No. 22 in A, D.959
Allegro
Andantino
Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio
Rondo. Allegretto - Presto
JONATHAN BISS, piano
