VICTORIA SYMPHONY PRESENTSTCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO 4

Friday concert underwritten by Chris and Eve Millington: Trustees of The Lou Williamson Scholarship Fund
Sunday concert underwritten by Helen Stuart

DEANNA THAM, conductor
William Grant Still: Darker America
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

The associate conductor of the Oregon Symphony, Deanna Tham, showcases two works from the 1920s. Prayer overcomes sorrow in a symphonic poem by the pioneering Black composer William Grant Still, while Stravinsky’s love affair with music of the past is presented in Pulcinella. Tchaikovsky abandoned an ill-fated romance and laid bare his feelings in his triumphant Fourth Symphony – a piece that also earned him an influential patron.