Shelley & Yeol Eum Son

with the NAC Orchestra

Yeol Eum Son © Marco Borggreve
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Alexander Shelley
Music Classical music Piano
  • RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Maurice RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major
  • Kelly-Marie Murphy Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe (NACO commission)
  • RICHARD STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24
  • In-person event
  • Bilingual
  • ≈ 2 hours · With intermission

In recognition and thanks for invaluable donor support, NAC English Theatre and NAC Indigenous Theatre reserve a limited number of complimentary seats for designated preview performances. Often, before the evening’s preview, a member of the production’s artistic team gives insights into the creative process and invites questions from donors.

  • Music Director Alexander Shelley welcomes guest pianist Yeol Eum Son to interpret Strauss
  • A 25-year-old composer grapples with life’s big questions and a contemporary composer answers with a mystical journey. 
  • Jazz and classical meet in one pretty concerto from Maurice Ravel

Music Director and Maestro Alexander Shelley leads global phenom Yeol Eum Son and the NAC Orchestra in an interpretation of classical and contemporary pieces by Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, and Kevin Lau. 

To start the evening, the audience will experience Richard Strauss’s Don Juan following shameless womanizer through days and nights of promiscuity, debauchery, and cruel desire—until he meets a deserved and mournful end. 

Famously opening with the sound of a whip crack, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G is jazz-tinged one moment and serene the next—one of the prettiest pieces of music ever written. Here, South Korean-born Son finds the true essence of Ravel’s fantastic piano concerto. 

At the ripe old age of 25, Richard Strauss was already grappling with the loftiest and most fundamental questions of human experience in his Tod und Verklärung—or “Death and Transfiguration.” 

Performance is approximately 2 hours including intermission

Artists

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    Conductor Alexander Shelley
  • Piano Yeol Eum Son
  • bio-orchestra
    Featuring NAC Orchestra
  • Featuring Kevin Lau