Resilience and Defiance at South Shore Cultural Center

Jan 16, 2022

Overview

Premiered in 1953 after the death of Joseph Stalin, Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony bursts with menacing march rhythms, chilling whispers and triumphal defiance. The music is often heard as a reckoning with the brutalities of Stalinism but also as the composer’s sigh of relief. Rossen Milanov conducts this thrilling program, which also features Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Something for the Dark, a bold and colorful meditation on resilience.

  • Venue
    Community Venue
  • Price Range
    Free
  • Length
    1 hour 10 minutes
  • Program Book
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Program
Snider

Something for the Dark

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 10

Sponsors

The 2021/22 Civic Orchestra of Chicago season is generously sponsored by The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.


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Variety suits conductor Rossen Milanov.: “I recharge and refine my process by collaborating with different artists, looking for inspiration in other art forms.”
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Sarah Kirkland Snider arrived at composition a little belatedly. “I think this is true for at least a lot of women of my generation and older,” she said. “You put it off because you don’t know if it’s viable."
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The Civic Orchestra’s 2021-22 season, which begins Nov. 8, puts an emphasis on diversity, with an array of works by women and people of color — what Principal Conductor Ken-David Masur describes as giving “voice to musicians and composers who perhaps had been neglected.”
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