BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//artsboston.org//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of artsboston.org X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130519T131726CEST-0054XPGlex@artsboston.org DTSTAMP:20130519T111726Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Rachmaninov / Piano Concerto No. 2: George Li\, pia no | Shostakovich / Symphony No. 5 \nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/ event/detail/441651746/Rachmaninov_Piano_Concerto_No_2_George_Li_piano_Sho stakovich_Symphony_No_5_\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-11-15\nEvent Date End: 20 12-11-18\n\nBenjamin Zander\, Conductor\n \nMusic has extraordinary power to heal. Rachmaninoff is a case in point. In 1895 the humiliating failur e of his First Symphony precipitated a clinical depression that lasted for five years\, during which he was unable to compose. But finally a brilli ant experimental hypnotherapist was able to crack the shell\, and when he started to compose again &ndash\; the Second Piano Concerto &ndash\; the m usic flowed as never before. That familiar sound world that we associate with his name begins with this work\, not before it.\nA piece so loved\, s o well known &ldquo\;Rach 2&rdquo\; barely needs to be described. But it does need to be stressed that this work was once new\, that it once impres sed audiences because of its originality\, not its familiarity. It is thi s sense of stumbling upon a new and very original musical landscape that t hese performances will be attempting to rediscover. And leading this voya ge of discovery will be the phenomenal seventeen year old pianist George L i. BPO concert goers will remember his spellbinding\, musically mature an d deeply poetic performance of the Saint-Saë\;ns Second Piano Concerto several years ago when\, at thirteen\, he was the youngest soloist ever t o play with the orchestra. Since then he has been hugely honored here and abroad\, won competitions\, and is acknowledged as one of the most import ant pianistic talents to have emerged in the present century.\nThe Shostak ovich Fifth Symphony came as balm to the beleaguered and oppressed citizen s of the Soviet Union in 1937. The poignant song of grief of its slow mov ement was something its first audience\, in the throes of the Stalinist Te rror\, fully understood and openly wept to. The symphony's encrypted mes sage of perseverance in the face of frightening oppression still has the p ower both to terrify and to inspire in today's less repressive but still v ery complex political climate. \n \n\nStart time: Thursday\, 11/15/2012 - 7:30pm\nDiscovery Series\nSanders Theater\n\nSaturday\, 11/17/2012 - 8:00p m\nJordan Hall\nPre-concert Talk 6:45pm\n\nSunday\, 11/18/2012 - 3:00pm\nP re-concert Talk 1:45pm\nSanders Theater DTSTART:20121115T000000 DTEND:20121118T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Rachmaninov / Piano Concerto No. 2: George Li\, piano | Shostakovic h / Symphony No. 5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR