Following last season’s powerful performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Colburn Orchestra and conductor Earl Lee return to Walt Disney Concert Hall with another larger-than-life program. Two atmospheric works—Samy Moussa’s 2021 work Elysium and Richard Strauss’s famous symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, best known for its use in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey—bookend the concert with soaring melodies and theatrical tone shifts. In between, the lush orchestration and sparkling virtuosity of Max Bruch’s violin concerto provide a break from the musical theatrics.

The Colburn Orchestra is generously underwritten by Eva and Marc Stern.

PROGRAM INFORMATION
SAMY MOUSSA Elysium
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
Earl Lee, Conductor

Eunice Lee, Violin