Curtis Symphony Orchestra

Featuring violinist Hilary Hahn

by Peter Burwasser

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Published: Oct 18, 2006

There is not a season that goes by in the classical music universe that does not include one or more freshly minted Curtis grads making a stir. Violinist Hilary Hahn, class of 1999, was landing major concert dates and recording deals even before she graduated. She richly deserves the attention. Violinists, like tenors and sopranos in the opera realm, can be shamelessly flashy, but her playing is at once sublimely respectful to the composer, and also superbly vibrant and alive with a beating pulse. With Hahn, it's all about the music, and her audiences are compelled by the subtle power of her artistry to listen in this frame of mind. Hahn returns to her alma mater to solo in a seldom heard work by a 20th-century giant, Benjamin Britten. The concert is an 80th birthday tribute to Otto-Werner Mueller, one of the world's most prominent conducting pedagogues (he works at Curtis and Juilliard). Mueller will, as he often does, work for his supper, at the podium for a program that also includes a Beethoven overture and the dazzling Symphony No. 5 of Prokofiev.

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