Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Anne-Sophie Mutter / Fabio Luisi

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Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 20:00

Venue

This was essentially an artists’ friendship that was highly improbable: Anne-Sophie Mutter, international classical music star from Germany, and the legendary American soundtrack composer John Williams. But that’s only one side of the story. On the other hand, Anne-Sophie Mutter loves cinema, and is a great fan of John Williams, about whom she says that he has a genius for »building bridges between different musical languages«. John Williams wrote his jazz-inspired Second Violin Concerto especially for Anne-Sophie Mutter, whom he... Read full text

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Musicians

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Anne-Sophie Mutter	Violin
Fabio Luisi	Conductor

Program

What Keeps Me Awake	Angélica Negrón
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2	John Williams
»HelenaMusik zum Film »Indiana Jones« (Regie: George Lucas, USA 1981)	John Williams
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64	Piotr Tchaikovsky
Ouvertüre zu »Ruslan und Ljudmila«	Michail Glinka

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