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Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall
Ein Heldenleben: A Hero’s Life
Thursday, October 23, 2014 — 8 p.m.
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Christopher Rouse
Alexander Scriabin
Rapture
Symphony No. 4, The Poem of Ecstasy,
opus 54
INTERMISSION
Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben, opus 40
JONATHAN CARNEY, Violin
The concert will end at approximately 9:50 p.m.
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 8.
About the concert:
R apture
Christopher Rouse
Born in Baltimore, MD, February 15,1949;
now living in Baltimore
Since 1985 when The Infernal Machine
introduced him here and the three
seasons of 1986–1989 when he served as
the BSO’s composer in residence, Christopher Rouse has become a creative voice
that Baltimore audience members know
well. Or at least we think we do, because
Rouse has continually shown a great
capacity to grow, change, and surprise us
with his music.
Early in his career, he was renowned for
writing very fast, intricate, dissonant, and
often extremely loud music, such as The
Infernal Machine an