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St. Louis Symphony to perform
Stefan Freund’s
Cyrillic Dreams
Columbia, MO -Original music from Mizzou will be heard once again next year at Powell Hall in St. Louis, as the St. Louis Symphony’s announcement last Tuesday of their 2015-16 season schedule included the news that they’ll perform Stefan Freund’s
Cyrillic Dreams as part of a concert on Friday, April 29, 2016.
Freund is associate professor of composition and music theory at the University of Missouri and co-artistic director of the Mizzou New Music Initiative (http://mizzounewmusic.missouri.edu/). The Memphis native also is a cellist and founding member of the new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, and is the music director and principal conductor of the Columbia Civic Orchestra.
Cyrillic Dreams, composed in 2008 with a commission from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, was inspired by Freund’s trip to Russia that year. It was premiered by the Columbia Civic Orchestra by the Columbia Civic Orchestra on March 24, 2009 in Vienna's Minoritenkirche with the composer conducting, and subsequently has been played by orchestras including the Tennessee Tech University Orchestra and the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra, and at the Missouri River Festival of the Arts.
The St. Louis Symphony will play Freund’s composition on a program that also includes well-known works such as Bernstein’s
Candide Overture, Wagner’s
Ride of the Valkyries and Dukas’
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
The concert is part of the St. Louis Symphony’s new “Music You Know” series conducted by music director David Robertson, which aims to connect listeners to classical music by presenting “familiar tunes we’re certain you know, and others that you’ll long to hear again and again.”
Cyrillic Dreams also is one of just eight works by living composers on the orchestra’s schedule next season.
"When I wrote
Cyrillic Dreams, I imagined the rich acoustic of the three huge churches in Austria where the piece was to be performed,” said Freund. “I think it will sound equally glorious in the majestic setting of Powell Hall."
Tickets for the St. Louis Symphony’s 2015-16 season are on sale now via their website at stlsymphony.org.
The Mizzou New Music Initiative is an array of programs intended to position the University of Missouri School of Music as a leading center in the areas of composition and new music, and is the direct result of the generous support of Dr. Jeanne and Mr. Rex Sinquefield and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
For more information:
Stefan Freund:
http://music.missouri.edu/faculty/freund.html
Mizzou New Music Initiative:
http://mizzounewmusic.missouri.edu/
Sinquefield Charitable Foundation: http://www.sinquefieldcharitablefoundation.com/
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra:
http://stlsymphony.org/
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