TSO: NACO + OSQ: Hétu Symphony No. 5

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Alexander Shelley leads the combined forces of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Orchestre symphonique de Québec, paying homage to one of Canada’s most original voices, Jacques Hétu, with a performance of his final work, the Fifth Symphony, originally commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The four movements of Hétu’s Fifth portray 1940 before, during, and after the Nazi invasion of France, capped off by the poem “Liberté” set
to music. Hétu passed just three weeks before the TSO’s première of his work in 2010. Opening the performance is Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2, which, as one piano critic stated, “begins with Bach and ends with Offenbach”—a nod to the work’s contrasting themes and solo piano line, which is virtuosic yet not too flashy, performed by young artist Kevin Chen.

Event Artists

National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley, Orchestre symphonique de Quebec, Clemens Schuldt, Kevin Chen, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

TSO: NACO + OSQ: Hétu Symphony No. 5

Date/Time
Saturday, March 2, 2024
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Roy Thomson Hall
60 Simcoe Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5J 2H5

Price
$43-156

Phone
416-598-3375

Website
https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/calendar

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