The Nashville Symphony gets 2010 off to an exciting start with top-ranked violinist Hilary Hahn performing the concerto recently written for her by Jennifer Higdon. Hahn is an internationally acclaimed two-time Grammy winner to whom Nashvillian Edgar Meyer dedicated a 1999 concerto. Higdon, a university teacher of Hahn’s at the Curtis Institute, has in the last decade become one of the country’s most successful composers—her blue cathedral has been played by more than 200 orchestras. For a stirring finish, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 prominently features the organ in two movements, making it a great occasion to hear the Schermerhorn Center’s powerful 64-rank instrument in action. Also on the program is 1955’s The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů.
Thu., Jan. 7, 7 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 8, 8 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 9, 8 p.m., 2010
