Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Updated March 11, 2020: In an effort to reduce the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) all performances and events scheduled at Benaroya Hall through March 31, 2020 will be canceled or postponed.

Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto is startlingly fresh, weaving influences from African American spirituals into the tapestry of the orchestra. Prokofiev’s whimsical First Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s gut-wrenching Fifth show two Russian outsiders arriving at bold and highly personal strategies to cast aside the heavy mantles of Mozart and Beethoven.