Hopkins Symphony Orchestra: Rhapsodies & Beethoven

MAR 1, 2025 | 7:30PM | SHRIVER HALL

Rhapsodies & Beethoven
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
Anjan Shah, Bansuri flute, tenor saxophone; Nabin Shrestha, tabla ; Jonathan Epley, guitar; Amy Shook, bass; Sarah Morelli, Kathak artist

Rhapsody and rhythm are the musical forces behind this multi-faceted program. HSO will give its debut performance of Drew Zaremba’s Nightfall Rhapsody (or Rhapsody in Raag Jog), which combines traditional Indian music motifs, jazz, and classical sounds. Bansuri flute, tabla, saxophone, and Kathak dancing will bring these expressions to life in a work that opens with mystery and closes with incisiveness. Beethoven’s irrepressible Symphony No. 7 contains similar features with driving, ecstatic rhythm even as it opens with a kind of cosmic grandeur. Both works, then, follow a surprisingly similar trajectory, and move in similar ways, with a surface that could not be more contrasting.

DREW ZAREMBA: Nightfall Rhapsody—Anjan Shah, Bansuri flute, tenor saxophone; Nabin Shrestha, tabla ; Jonathan Epley, guitar; Amy Shook, bass; Sarah Morelli, Kathak artist

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7

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Co-hosted with: Office of Arts and Innovation

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