In just about a week and half I am going to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto for Oundjian And Dindo. Cellist Enrico Dindo – who dazzled TSO audiences in 2006 with the two Shostakovich Concertos – returns with another masterpiece of twentieth century Russian music: Sergey Prokofiev's thrilling Sinfonia concertante. Peter Oundjian has paired it with American composer John Corigliano's Symphony No. 2. This Pulitzer Prize-winning work for string orchestra was hailed by the Chicago Tribune for its "coruscating power, eerie beauty and sheer inventive fantasy." The program includes Bernstein: Candide Overture; Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante for Cello and Orchestra; John Corigliano: Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra. We have got good seats for June 4th performance and I am looking forward to it now, especially since I have not been to the Roy Thomson Hall before.
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