Mozart and Shostakovich at NAC Southam Hall

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...