Minnesota Orchestra

RUSH tickets available beginning one hour prior to the concert for students ($15, 2 tickets per ID) and adults ($20, 4 tickets per ID).  Prepaid reserved parking is available here.

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductorGil Shaham, violin

MENDELSSOHN Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream

KORNGOLD Violin Concerto

HINDEMITH Concert Music for Strings and Brass

RAVEL Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe

Theater and genius in their many forms are showcased, from the stage to ballet, even to Hollywood! Mendelssohn produced his famous Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream when he was just 17, and it never fails to delight. Erich Korngold made his mark in ‘30s and ‘40s movie spectacles, but he also composed remarkable concert music. Gil Shaham (hailed by the LA Times for his “brilliant, almost ecstatic performance”) has made the Korngold Concerto one of his signature works. We close with Ravel’s timeless Daphnis and Chloe, written for the legendary Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes. Wonderful, dramatic music!

"Once I... heard a mermaid... Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres..."

— Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream