University Philharmonic Orchestra

• University Music Society

Daniele Rosina conductor

The Unanswered Question, is a miniature described by Ives as a ‘cosmic drama’. A hauntingly beautiful chorale of strings
represents ‘the silence of the Druids’, over which a solo trumpet proclaims an enigmatic phrase representing ‘the perennial question of existence’. The concert concludes with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, a work written at the height of the Stalinist purges of 1937. Shostakovich, emerging from a period of total musical banishment, called the symphony ‘a response to my critics’.

• Ives
  The Unanswered Question
• Respighi
  The Fountains of Rome
• Shostakovich
  Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

Venue: Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall

Admission: £10, £8 concessions, £3 students/U18 (Available from the Bramall website or by calling +44 (0) 121 414 4414)