Young piano phenom Conrad Tao, who amazed audiences during last season’s Beethoven Festival, returns to play a Mozart piano concerto that has a sunny disposition, charm, and elegance—all at the same time. Maestro Zukerman leads the NAC Orchestra premiere of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, which represents / portrays the composer’s musical portrait of Stalin—demonic, loud, and violent. Musical pitches equivalent to Shostakovich’s initials are embedded like a kind of code and triumphantly crush the tyrant’s music—like dancing on Stalin’s grave...
Cast and Creative Team for Mozart and Shostakovich at NAC Southam Hall
Pinchas Zukerman conductor
Conrad Tao piano
