Award-winning guest musicians pour in from all over the country to Grand Rapids for our biggest annual summer concert yet, The Dancing Sun! Listen as the sounds of summer are summoned through the music of Tchaikovsky, CPE Bach, Ysaÿe, and Lemon Guo. In their vivid works, the familiar world turns wondrously radiant: the measured patterns of human dance, the electrical hum of insects, the rowdy choruses of frogs, and whispers of wind moving through ancient trees lush with new leaves.

PROGRAM

Hugo Wolf

Italian Serenade

Arvo Pärt

Fratres (Version for Four Cellos)

Eugène Ysaÿe

Exil! Poème Symphonique for High Strings, Op. 25

C.P.E. Bach

Sinfonia in C Major, Wq. 182/3, H. 659

Herbert Howells

Elegy for Viola, String Quartet and String Orchestra

Lemon Guo

Frog for String Orchestra

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Souvenir de Florence Op. 70, TH 118 (III. Allegro moderato, IV. Allegro vivace)

PERFORMERS

Karisa Chiu, violin 

Zach Brandon, violin

Ethan Mayer, violin

Jaewon Seo, violin

Steven Song, violin

Zech Mo, viola

Paolo Dara, viola

Ethan Cobb, cello

Krystian Chiu, cello

Nathan Mo, cello

Alon Hayut, cello