Name: Explorations of Humanity
Start: 2024-02-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Shepherd School of Music

Organization

Conductor

Lidiya Yankovskaya

Instrumentalist

Cellist

Maximus Gurath

Cello

Orchestra

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra

The Shepherd School of Music Rice University

Explorations of Humanity

Houston

United States

The Shepherd School of Music

Stude Concert Hall

Explorations of Humanity: Hymn for Everyone Montgomery, Jessie (+2 More)

Public

Hymn for Everyone

Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 47

Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

Approved

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Soprano

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Countertenor

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Tenor

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Fast-rising star conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya leads a program exploring different shades of the human experience, beginning with Jessie Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone, a meditation on life during the pandemic. 2023 Shepherd School of Music Concerto Competition Winner Maximus Gurath shines in Elgar’s profoundly expressive Cello Concerto, a poignant response to World War I. For Shostakovich, his Fifth Symphony was literally a matter of life and death—already on thin ice with a Soviet regime that regularly “purged” unsuitable artists, a negative review would have been disastrous, and likely fatal. The monumental masterpiece he created achieved the impossible: appeasing authorities, scattering covert moments of defiance, and immortalizing music’s power to speak volumes without a single word

English

Explorations of Humanity by Montgomery, Jessie, Shostakovich, Elgar, From (2024/2024), Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, The Shepherd School of Music, Houston, United States

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues