Symphonic Stories

Some forces are invisible, but you feel their pull.

Symphonic Stories begins with Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral, a luminous work shaped by memory, grief, and hope. Then Timothy McAllister joins Auburn Symphony for the West Coast Premiere of Gravity at a Distance, Viet Cuong’s new saxophone concerto inspired by celestial bodies and the unseen forces that bind them across space.

The afternoon closes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, where storytelling becomes an act of survival.

Program

Jennifer HIGDON – blue cathedral
Viet CUONG – Gravity at a Distance
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – Scheherazade, Op. 35