CSO Season Finale: Brahms + Rodrigo

Take a trip with the Charleston Symphony through lush Spanish musical themes via Rimsky-Korsakov and Joaquín Rodrigo, with a detour to Austria for Brahms’ inviting and intricate Symphony No. 2. Conductor José Luis Gomez returns to the podium with Grammy nominated guitarist Mak Grgic for the CSO’s final Masterworks concert of the 2024-2025 season.

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• Rodrigo explained his guitar concerto with a description that Charlestonians can likely relate to: “In its melody the perfume of magnolias lingers, the singing of birds and the gushing of fountains.”
• Touted as a “gifted young guitarist” by the New York Times, and “a guitarist to keep an eye on” by the Washington Post, 3-time Grammy®-nominated artist Mak Grgic was invited by legendary singer-songwriter k.d. lang to perform as the opening act for the North American leg of her Ingénue Redux Tour.
• José Luis Gomez is Music Director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and a highly accomplished conductor. He has recorded Bela Fleck’s Second Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and he won First Prize at the International Sir Georg Solti Conductor’s Competition in Frankfurt in September 2010.
• Rimsky-Korsakov said of his Capriccio espangol: “It is intended as a brilliant composition for the orchestra… The Spanish themes of dance character furnished me with rich material for putting in use multiform orchestral effects.”