Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Exaltation Concert Duration: 2 hours (includes intermission) Adolphus Hailstork Sonata da Chiesa Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D Minor Bomsori Kim, violin Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 Bomsori Kim, violin Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 Bach’s endless melodies, braided and tangled in an ecstasy of counterpoint, lift music to rapturous heights. His Orchestral Suite showcasing a fleet-fingered flutist and his “Double” Concerto for dueling violins prove how even his works of sheer entertainment ripple with undercurrents of spiritual urgency. Felix Mendelssohn applies Bach’s lessons of interwoven lines to make his precocious Violin Concerto in D Minor soar with uncommon energy, especially when the Korean superstar Bomsori Kim approaches it with her signature “balletic grace” (The Strad). Adolphus Hailstork, an elder statesman among Black American composers who is enjoying a long-overdue renaissance, revisits his childhood singing in church choirs for a Bach-inflected journey that begins and ends in a state of exaltation.