The NAC Orchestra performs for the first time two works by Serbian composer Isidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark, a surrealist adventure that evokes the sacred chants of Byzantine monks, and Zujte Strune (Hum away, hum away, strings!), which reimagines themes from Mozart’s fairy-tale opera The Magic Flute.

Isidora Žebeljan’s music has been described as “a frenetic fantasy, screaming and sobbing, moving between Belgrade and New York.”

Program:

ISIDORA ŽEBELJAN The Horses of Saint Mark

ARTURO MARQUEZ Concierto Místico y Profano (Mystical and Profane)

ISIDORA ŽEBELJAN Zujte Strune (Hum away, hum away, strings!)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504, “Prague”