The second orchestral concert of this year’s festival features two works that both, in their way, grapple with the connection between worlds.
Opening the program, we welcome Greek composer Konstantia Gourzi and trumpet soloist Simon Höfele to Winnipeg, collaborating on Ypsilon for trumpet and orchestra.
Symphony No. 6 was the last completed work by the great American composer Christopher Rouse before his death in 2019. Part of a set of works he referred to as his “Death Cycle”, he composed this final symphony as an epitaph to himself. A powerful and introspective work, Rouse chose not to share the personal meaning he conceived for it, instead inviting the audience to absorb and interpret its mysteries each on our own terms.