#BrooklynHeights

String Orchestra of Brooklyn: Troubled Light

The title Troubled Light comes, in part, from Haydn himself. Before it became known as the Nelson Mass, he called the work Missa in angustiis: a “Mass in troubled times,” written in 1798 against the background of war in Europe. The music begins in D minor and ultimately arrives in D major after a complex and moving journey between the…

String Orchestra of Brooklyn in performance

String Orchestra of Brooklyn: American Reveries

American Reveries brings together three very different ideas of America. Ellington premiered Black, Brown and Beige at Carnegie Hall in 1943, describing the work as a musical parallel to the history of Black Americans. Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, written a few years later, sets James Agee’s recollection of an evening from his Tennessee childhood. Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances approaches America…

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