Weill's Violin Concerto with Salonen

Weill’s Violin Concerto (1924) – with the unusual accompaniment of a wind band – at times surges with anxious energy and, at other moments, broods with world-weariness.

Salonen closes with Hindemith’s magnificent Symphony (1934), composed as material for his politically charged opera about a Renaissance master painter.

ArtistsLos Angeles PhilharmonicEsa-Pekka Salonen, conductorCarolin Widmann, violinProgramHINDEMITHRag Time (on a theme of J.S.

Bach)WEILLViolin ConcertoIntermissionBACH (arr.

Schoenberg)“Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele,” BWV 654BACH (arr.

Schoenberg)“Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist,” BWV 667HINDEMITHSymphony: Mathis der MalerThe Weimar RepublicGermany 1918–1933In the 1920s, Germany saw a remarkable cultural renaissance prior to the rise of Nazism.

Intellectualism and modernism took root in the chaotic social and economic climate between world wars.

The arts and sciences burst with imagination, queer identities were brought to the forefront, and the lines between high and low art were erased.

Join in a wide-ranging look at this fascinating, turbulent time.