UNL Symphony presents “Tcheers for Tchaikovsky—and Mozart, too!”

On Friday, December 9 at 7:30 PM in Kimball Recital Hall, the UNL Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Tyler Goodrich White, will round out the fall semester with a blockbuster program featuring a world premiere, one of Mozart’s most beautiful and beloved works, and the epic Symphony No. 4 of Tchaikovsky.

The program opens with the world premiere of White’s orchestral work Cataclysm. White notes about the new piece, “Cataclysm is a ten-minute concert overture, turbulent and dramatic in character, expressing something of the violence and conflict of our world today, along with hopes—forever uncertain—for a more positive and peaceful future.”

Following the premiere, Profs. David C. Neely, violin, and Clark Potter, viola, join the orchestra for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364. The work, one of the few in the standard repertoire for multiple soloists and orchestra, stands out within Mozart’s vast output for its exceptional beauty, lyricism, and emotionally powerful expressive contrasts.

The program concludes with Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, one of the most innovative and popular works of the Romantic symphonic repertoire. The symphony, a meditation on the idea of Fate in human affairs, moves from its first movement depicting the overwhelming, inecscapable force of Fate, through inner movements of melancholy and whimsy, to a triumphant, exhilarating finale representing the redemptive power of celebration in joyful community.

You can watch the livestream by visiting https://arts.unl.edu/music/webcasts.