The Utah Symphony performs Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, alongside Sofia Gubaidulina's 'Fairytale Poem' and Leonard Bernstein's 'Serenade', conducted by Domingo Hindoyan.
The Utah Symphony is bringing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 to Maurice Abravanel Hall on Friday, October 23, and Saturday, October 24. Conductor Domingo Hindoyan is leading the orchestra, and the program pairs the symphony with two allegorical orchestral works that set a pretty specific mood for the night.
The first piece is Fairytale Poem by Sofia Gubaidulina, a late Soviet composer. It's built around a strange, mystical image: a piece of chalk that, like a self-sacrificing artist, keeps drawing great castles and landscapes even as it dissolves into dust. After that comes Leonard Bernstein's Serenade, a series of musical portraits that look at the multidimensionality of love from the viewpoint of the ancient Greeks, as captured by Plato. Violinist Maria Ioudenitch takes the lead on that one.
Then there's the symphony itself. Tchaikovsky's Fifth is framed as a journey from darkness toward a whirlwind finale, and it's driven by a recurring 'fate' motif that keeps coming back throughout the piece. Between Gubaidulina's chalk and Bernstein's take on Plato, the whole evening leans into these kinds of allegorical, storytelling ideas.
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If you want a bit more context before the music starts, there's a pre-concert chat in the First Tier Room 45 minutes before each performance, with the guest artists and symphony musicians. The Friday show is at 7:30 PM and the Saturday one is at 5:30 PM, both at Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple in Salt Lake City.
