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Christian Olson: The Inheritance of Beauty

  • Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238 (map)

Performers

Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra
Christian Olson, conductor

Program

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

MAURICE RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

About the Concert

The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra opens its season with two composers transforming what they inherited into something newly radiant. Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, his final orchestral masterpiece, looks back across a lifetime of music with rhythmic vitality, mystery, and dark brilliance. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2, begins in a shimmering dawn and surges toward an ecstatic final dance. Conductor Christian Olson leads a program of memory, myth, and orchestral color.

Join us Sunday, November 1 at 2:00 PM at the Brooklyn Museum, or watch the livestream. Concert tickets include general admission to the Museum.

About the Conductor

Christian Olson is a conductor and vocal coach with a particular affinity for orchestral and operatic repertoire. His work combines close attention to musical history with vivid, direct communication in performance. Olson studied musicology at the University of North Texas and is completing a doctorate in conducting at Indiana University, where his research focuses on the music of Hector Berlioz.

Learn more about Christian Olson

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