The second concert in the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra’s M&T Bank Symphonic Series, “Thresholds,” is being billed as “an evening of three remarkable works from across two centuries.” Featured on Nov. 16 will be Hilary Purrington’s 2020 piece Threshold, an atmospheric soundscape of driving rhythms that explores the boundaries between motion and stillness; Felix Mendelssohn’s evocative Hebrides Overture, one of the masterworks of 19th-century Romantic program music, and Anton Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony in A Major.
The Bruckner, programmed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth, is a monumental work long celebrated for the complexity of its harmonic language and the profundity of its emotional impact. This is the first performance of the piece in our region in 60 years.
The concert, conducted by Binghamton Philharmonic Music Director Daniel Hege, will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Forum Theatre in downtown Binghamton. “Mist and Myth in 19th-Century Music,” a pre-concert chat by Dr. Julia Grella O’Connell, the Philharmonic’s Director of Education and Community Engagement, will begin at 6:30 p.m. O’Connell will discuss the visual and historical imagination in Mendelssohn and Bruckner.
IF YOU GO: The Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra will present “Thresholds” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Broome County Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St. Binghamton. Tickets are $28 to $69. Kids 17 and under attend free, thanks to Symphonic Series Sponsor M&T Bank. Call the Binghamton Philharmonic box office at 607-723-3931, email, info@binghamtonphilharmonic.org or visit www.binghamtonphilharmonic.org.
