Events
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Shostakovich No. 5
Featured RecurringKleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY, United StatesComposed to acknowledge an honorary degree despite not attending university, a mischievous Brahms penned the tongue-in-cheek Academic Festival Overture, featuring boisterous student drinking songs. Del Águila's Concierto en Tango for Cell and Orchestra is a modern take on the traditional form, light-hearted and rhythmic. The forced optimism of Symphony No. 5, glorifying Stalin's regime, proved both career- and lifesaving for Shostakovich.
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Ruben Studdard – My Tribute to Luther Vandross
Featured RecurringKleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY, United StatesFrom his roots in Gospel to forays into R&B and Jazz to top winner of American Idol's second season, Ruben Studdard has always considered Luther Vandross his hero. He recreates the velvet tones of songs like Here and Now, Aint No Stoppin' Us Now, Always and Forever, and Dance with my Father for a sentimental return to the '80s and '90s.
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Beethoven’s Fifth
Featured RecurringKleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY, United StatesFour notes instantly recognizable across generations welcome back the much-loved Symphony No. 5 to the Kleinhans stage. Dance Symphony's rhythmic jazz motifs were drawn from an evocative Copland ballet about a morbid conjurer who could raise the dead and make them dance. Beethoven expands on Mozart's influence in his Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring challenging key changes and bold harmonies.