Leigh Howard Stevens premieres with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra in Kurka's ꞌConcert for Marimba and Orchestraꞌ

The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (OST) will convene at the Tenerife Auditorium on Friday 24, at 19:30, a new event featuring Robert Kurka's "Concert for Marimba and Orchestra". A work that the ensemble will perform for the first time and which will feature as a soloist the American marimba player Leigh Howard Stevens. Tickets are on sale for €34.

• "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" by Claude Debussy is inspired by Mallarmé's homonymous poem, and more than a faithful transliteration into musical language, it is the evocation of two situations that frame the eclogue: the moment between wakefulness and dreaming; and the unfortunate attempts of the faun trying to seduce the nymphs of the forest.
• The "Concert for Marimba and Orchestra, op. 34" by Robert Kurka, was born at the behest of the American performer Vida Chenoweth, who wanted to situate the marimba as a concert instrument in a relevant place. The beginning has a strong jazz inspiration, and in some moments the symphonic ensemble will will remind us of a big band.
• The programme closes with Béla Bártok's "Concert for orchestra, Sz 116/BB 123" which is an interpretation by the Hungarian master of the ensemble as a sum of soloists; something like a modern reading of the baroque "concerto grosso" which consisted in the treatment of the orchestra by differentiated groups.

You can buy your ticket online.