Spring for Music: Oregon Symphony
The Oregon Symphony's Intimations Of Conflict At Carnegie Hall

Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Oregon Symphony in music inspired by war. Leah Nash/Oregon Symphony hide caption
Hear the orchestra perform works possessed with the turbulent spirit of war, including music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Charles Ives and John Adams.
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Personnel
Carlos Kalmar, music director
Program
- Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
- John Adams: The Wound-Dresser (feat. Sanford Sylvan, baritone)
- Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4