Most recently, he stepped in as a last-minute substitute in Sarasota, Florida, for three performances of the Grieg Piano Concerto. When the artist returns to his home town this weekend for concerts with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, he’ll play Bernstein’s Symphony No. Auden's 1947 book-length poem “The Age of Anxiety”, Bernstein’s work was commissioned by his mentor, Serge Koussevitzky, and premiered with the Boston Symphony two years later. “It’s a highly serious work, and it’s a philosophical work,” Parker says. The piano does not have these big, crashing final chords or go out in a blaze of glory.

Source: CBC News November 08, 2022 17:03 UTC