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Kluxen – Beethoven Symphony No. 7 (Sidney)

September 14
7:30 pm
Mary Winspear CentreView on map
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A festive Danish curtain-raiser by Friedrich Kuhlau (Beethoven’s contemporary and a composer central to Denmark’s musical identity) sets the tone for a season that celebrates place and belonging in a time when national songs resonate more than ever. Britta Byström’s A Walk to Beethoven, commissioned by Christian Kluxen during his Arctic Philharmonic tenure, answers across time with a luminous bridge leading naturally into Beethoven’s radiant Seventh Symphony—a “celebration of humanity being unworried and free.”

Presented without intermission.

Concert Programme

  • Kuhlau
    Elverhøj (Elves’ Hill) Overture
  • Britta Byström
    A Walk to Beethoven
  • Beethoven
    Symphony No. 7 in A major
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