Program Info
- MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds In Us
- LOWELL LIEBERMANN: Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra
- ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD: Theme and Variations, Op. 42
- KURT WEILL: Symphony No. 2
Missy Mazzoli’s work returns to the Witherspoon with These Worlds In Us, an intense, emotional writing for chamber orchestra. Omaha Symphony Third Flute & Piccolo player, Lisa Meyerhofer, takes on Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra, highlighting the range of the orchestra’s smallest instrument. Kurt Weill’s Symphony No. 2 closes the program, a 20th century masterpiece written after his escape of Nazi Germany in 1933.