The Tree of Life

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

Carl Maria von Weber

In this program, one of the composers has the name of the main villain from the Sherlock Holmes universe. No more intrigue, but still a lot of interesting things: this evening, the famous overture from the opera by Italian Gioacchino Rossini and the contemporary symphony The Tree of Life by American composer Richard Moriarty will be performed in a free-spirited manner. The distance between the works is more than two centuries, and each author has put his own principles and beliefs into the sound of these compositions, which are worthy of attention.

During his recent visit to Lviv, Moriarty echoed him, saying: “Music has the ability to nourish my soul.”

Thus, another work on the program, the First Violin Concerto by Max Bruch, will tell us about the main and brightest moments of our existence through the language of music. It is often called simply “Bruch’s violin concerto”, although the composer wrote three opuses in this genre. One of the reasons for the work’s great popularity is the extraordinary violin part. It is filled with brilliant, virtuosic passages, stunning episodes, and grandiose romantic melodies, combined by the composer with a penetrating orchestral accompaniment.

An evening of the most diverse classical music performed by soloists, choir and symphony orchestra will leave no one indifferent: this is how the mighty Symphony of Life grows from the first, fragile single sounds.

Artists:

• Andriy Tchaikovsky, violin
• Lilia Nikitchuk, mezzo-soprano
• Galician Academic Chamber Choir
• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
• Theodore Kuchar, conductor

Program:

• Gioacchino Rossini. Overture to the opera “La gazza ladra”
• Max Bruch. Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
• Richard Moriarty. Symphony “The Tree of Life”