Pushing the Limits

William Grant Still – Bells
Dmitri Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No. 1
Callum Smart, violin
Béla Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra

British violinist and acclaimed pedagogue Callum Smart returns to Lexington Symphony for a stirring performance of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1—a deeply expressive and emotionally charged work written during one of the most turbulent periods in Soviet history. The program opens with William Grant Still’s evocative Bells and concludes with Bartók’s powerful Concerto for Orchestra, a masterful showcase of [...]