Carnegie Hall Preview: MTT’s Playthings

Saturday, April 20 at 2:00 PM

• Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
• Measha Brueggergosman, soprano
• Kara Dugan, mezzo-soprano

Program

• Tilson Thomas : Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
• Schubert : Death and the Maiden

Share in the excitement as MTT and the NWS Fellows give a sneak peek of their upcoming Carnegie Hall performance! MTT appears as both conductor and composer in Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind, his setting of Carl Sandberg’s poem about civilization and fate. Featuring dynamite soprano Measha Brueggergosman, backup vocalists, a bar band of jazz musicians and a chamber orchestra, it pays homage to MTT’s musical influences, including Igor Stravinsky, Sarah Vaughan, James Brown and more. MTT then leads the String Fellows in Mahler’s haunting take on Schubert’s famed quartet. Get ready to send off the orchestra with this preview of MTT’s Perspectives Artist Series grand finale.

Tickets and more information available here.