Organization

Conductor

Lidiya Yankovskaya

Instrumentalist

Cellist

Maximus Gurath

Cello

Orchestra

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra

The Shepherd School of Music Rice University

Explorations of Humanity

Houston

United States

The Shepherd School of Music

Stude Concert Hall

Explorations of Humanity: Hymn for Everyone Montgomery, Jessie (+2 More)

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Hymn for Everyone

Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 47

Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

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Fast-rising star conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya leads a program exploring different shades of the human experience, beginning with Jessie Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone, a meditation on life during the pandemic. 2023 Shepherd School of Music Concerto Competition Winner Maximus Gurath shines in Elgar’s profoundly expressive Cello Concerto, a poignant response to World War I. For Shostakovich, his Fifth Symphony was literally a matter of life and death—already on thin ice with a Soviet regime that regularly “purged” unsuitable artists, a negative review would have been disastrous, and likely fatal. The monumental masterpiece he created achieved the impossible: appeasing authorities, scattering covert moments of defiance, and immortalizing music’s power to speak volumes without a single word

English

Explorations of Humanity by Montgomery, Jessie, Shostakovich, Elgar, From (2024/2024), Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, The Shepherd School of Music, Houston, United States

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