Alisa Weilerstein Plays DvoÅĆ”kās Cello Concerto
Chautauqua Auditorium 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO, United StatesThe 2024 Festival season opens with the much-anticipated return of Alisa Weilerstein, whose music āemerges with sunlit clarityā (The Guardian); here Weilerstein performs one of the most breathtaking works for cello. Later: Mendelssohn could not shake the āfestive airā of Italy while composing his Fourth Symphony, which he called ā the happiest piece I have ever done.ā The program begins with a brief and evocative Masquerade; composer Anna Clyne drew inspiration from promenade concerts held in Londonās pleasure gardens and their āexotic street entertainers, dancers, fireworks,ā and of course, masquerades.