Winter Culture Calendar Forecast: Time for Shows

Pianist Inon Barnatan will perform the works of two famous composers with conductor and Princeton Symphony Orchestra music director
Rossen Milanov in the upcoming concert“Brahms and Beethoven” at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium.

However, of the three compositions on the night’s schedule, Carlos Simon’s “Fate Now Conquers” is not by either of the event’s two namesakes.

For a full-circle performance, Simon’s piece “draws upon structural elements of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony,” another program piece, as he was inspired by a journal entry in which Beethoven quoted Homer’s “Iliad,” according to the PSO website.

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