Houston Symphony presents "Journey to Light: Valčuha Conducts Shostakovich 10"

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Under Joseph Stalin’s brutal regime, being an artist meant extreme censorship, unimaginable pressure, and life-or-death stakes. No composer of the era embodied this more than Dmitri Shostakovich, and in his Symphony No. 10 - the first of his symphonies to be composed after Stalin’s death - his newfound artistic freedom unleashed an explosive torrent of earth-shaking emotional power. Music Director Juraj Valčuha leads the darkness-to-light journey, and violinist Baiba Skride will play Britten’s fiery Violin Concerto.

Under Joseph Stalin’s brutal regime, being an artist meant extreme censorship, unimaginable pressure, and life-or-death stakes. No composer of the era embodied this more than Dmitri Shostakovich, and in his Symphony No. 10 - the first of his symphonies to be composed after Stalin’s death - his newfound artistic freedom unleashed an explosive torrent of earth-shaking emotional power. Music Director Juraj Valčuha leads the darkness-to-light journey, and violinist Baiba Skride will play Britten’s fiery Violin Concerto.

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Jones Hall for the Performing Arts
615 Louisiana St, Houston, TX 77002, USA
https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/valcuha-shostakovich-10-concert/

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