PROGRAM
Ravel: La valse
Clyne: PALETTE (NOI+F Co-Commission)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Led by the Reno Philharmonic's Laura Jackson, this ambitious program includes three centuries of melodic fireworks. We begin with Maurice Ravel's 1919 ballet La valse, a wildly romantic, whirling 13-minute score that both celebrates and eulogizes the Viennese Waltz and inspired generations of choreographers. Next is Grammy Award-nominated composer Anna Clyne's 2025 PALETTE (an NOI+F co-commission with the St. Louis Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, and New World Symphony), a concerto that explores the symbiosis between music and visual art. Clyne's practice as a painter inspires the composition's bubbling synesthesia, capturing each of her canvases—rendered in Plum, Amber, Lava, Ebony, Teal, Tangerine, and Emerald, to form the work's acronymic title—in seven ravishing movements, awash in a storm of gesture, texture, light, color, and form. We close with a performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's epic 1878 Symphony No. 4. This masterpiece, in turns melancholy and bombastic, acts as precious insight into the beautiful and tempestuous inner life of the composer's genius.