Anne Akiko Meyers Plays Blue Electra

An Electrifying Afternoon of Flight, Fate & Music

Join us for a soaring start to the season with GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, hailed by The Strad as “the Wonder Woman of Commissioning”! Her passionate advocacy for living composers takes center stage in Michael Daugherty’s Blue Electra, a powerful violin concerto inspired by the life and mysterious disappearance of aviation legend Amelia Earhart.

Carl St. Clair returns to conduct this thrilling program, which explores themes of flight and destiny, culminating in Tchaikovsky’s dramatic Symphony No. 4.

Program Highlights:

• John Williams – Flying Theme from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Michael Daugherty – Blue Electra (Violin Concerto)
• Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36

Pre-Concert Talk: Ticket holders are invited to a special discussion in the auditorium at 3:00 PM.