Tchaikovsky and The Mermaid at Orpheum Theatre

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Glenn Buhr

…this is the murmur of yearning

Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D Major*

Zemlinsky

The Mermaid: Symphonic Fantasy after Hans Christian Andersen

One of the most important and in-demand violinists in the world today, Augustin Hadelich makes his much-anticipated VSO return, performing maybe the most popular violin concerto ever written. Zemlinsky’s lavish, rarely-performed orchestral masterpiece The Mermaid is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale of the mermaid who sacrifices herself for an unrequited love, written by Zemlinsky after his rejection by Alma Schindler, in favour of her soon-to-be husband, the great composer Gustav Mahler.