National Symphony Orchestra
Ryan McAdams conductor
Elaine Clark violin
 
Philip Glass Violin Concerto No. 1 
John Luther Adams Become Ocean

Culture Night is permission to try something new. Something that might astonish you. Like two very different living American musical giants.

The First Violin Concerto by Philip Glass is a loving remembrance of his father, as moving as it is modern.

John Luther Adams describes Become Ocean as ‘a meditation on the vast, deep and mysterious tides of existence’. The New Yorker said it ‘may be the loveliest apocalypse in musical history’.