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The Stuff of Dreams and Drama

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 9:47am
The Music Scene
By
Fred Baumgarten

The Waterbury Symphony Orchestra continues its spring season with a program titled “Metamorphosis.” The 74-year-old group under the direction of Leif Bjaland will open with the famed “Adagio for Strings” by American composer Samuel Barber.

American pianist William Wolfram, a bronze medalist in the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, will join the WSO for two piano concertos: Liszt’s first and Tchaikovsky’s third. The Liszt was a groundbreaking work of its time, now the prototypical grand Romantic concerto.

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