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Elgar Cello Concerto
Oct. 16 & 17 | Tennessee Theatre
Program

Tonight's performance is sponsored by Bass, Berry & Simms, and Dalen Products.

Aram Demirjian, conductor

Zlatomir Fung, cello

MEILINA TSUI (b. 1993)

Floridian Symphony for orchestra (2024)

Commissioned by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestral Commissions Program, an initiative of the League of American Orchestras in partnership with the American Composers Orchestra.

EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)

Cello Concerto in E minor, Opus 85 (1919)

I. Adagio; Moderato

II. Lento; Allegro molto

III. Adagio

IV. Allegro; Moderato; Allegro, ma non troppo

Zlatomir Fung, cello

---Intermission---

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

Pétrouchka (1947 version)

First Part: The Shrovetide Fair

Second Part: Pétrouchka

Third Part: The Moor

Fourth Part: The Shrovetide Fair


Steinway is the Official Piano of the MoxCar Marketing + Communications Masterworks Series.


Tonight's concert will be broadcast on WUOT 99.1 FM on Nov. 11, 2025 and July 20, 2026.