VSO at the Flynn: Rite of Spring
VSO’s 2026/27 season closes with a bold program of reinvention and discovery. Maurice Ravel’s famed Boléro, last performed by the VSO 40 years ago, transforms a simple Spanish dance into a hypnotic, driving crescendo. The U.S. premiere of a trumpet concerto by Danny Elfman—featuring the principal trumpet of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal —brings a celebrated film composer’s music to the concert stage. Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, riotous and revolutionary, crowns this electrifying finale.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and is preceded at 6:30 p.m. by Musically Speaking, a free pre-concert discussion that provides entertaining insight into the evening’s program.
Andrew Crust, conductor
Paul Merkelo, trumpet
Paul Merkelo
Program
Maurice Ravel – Boléro
Danny Elfman – Trumpet Concerto
Igor Stravinsky/McPhee – The Rite of Spring
