NHSO Music Director William Boughton conducts Kavafian Plays Mozart Thursday, December 2 at 7:30pm in Woolsey Hall and Sunday, December 5 at 3:00pm at Shelton Intermediate School. He will be joined by special guests soprano Hana Park and The Fairfield County Children’s Choir for Augusta Read Thomas’ Daylight Divine. Also featured will be the NHSO’s own concertmaster, renowned violinist Ani Kavafian, as soloist for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5.

Maestro Boughton writes: “Ani Kavafian’s Mozart Violin Concerto Project has arrived at the 5th commonly known as the ‘Turkish’ and so called because of its reference to Turkish Band music, which was popular at the time. From Turkey we travel to Scotland care of Mendelssohn and his ‘Scottish’ Symphony which references Scottish folk music — this romantic, wild and rugged work is a real tour de force and emotional roller-coaster. The two poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins — The Windhover and Pied Beauty — form the basis of the NHSO Composer-in-Residence’s work Daylight Divine, a work of extraordinary serenity and beauty that captures the musicality and rhythm of the original poems for which we welcome the Fairfield Children’s Choir and soloist Hana Park — watch her name!”

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