Orchestral Institute: Cross-Currents

Across the shifting boundaries between sky and sea, we are drawn to the moments where elements meet—where one world dissolves into another, and where motion emerges from stillness. Cross-currents invites us into these liminal realms, tracing music’s ability to inhabit the spaces in-between, and the journey a single current takes as it drifts into something vast beyond measure.

The evening opens with Debussy’s Syrinx, performed by YST Head of Winds, Brass & Percussion, Associate Professor Eric Lamb—a pivotal early 20th-Century work for solo flute, imbued with the tale of the mythical god Pan’s pursuit of the nymph Syrinx, and the quiet tragedy of her transformation. From this quietude, the third movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 emerges, a work that blends bright-eyed innocence with profound introspection, offering a child’s vision of paradise—delicate and luminous, yet touched by subtle shadows. The currents then widen into Debussy’s La Mer, three symphonic sketches that evoke the endless expanse of the sea and its constant transformation.

On this Valentine’s evening, the YST Orchestral Institute invites you to drift between these worlds, where currents cross and emotions converge—not in declarations, but in the quiet, inexhaustible motion of sound.

PROGRAMME

YST ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTE

with

JASON LAI, conductor

and

ERIC LAMB, flute

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Syrinx for Solo Flute, L. 129

GUSTAV MAHLER

Symphony No. 4 in G major <1892-1900; rev 1901-1910>

Ill. Ruhevoll

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

La Mer (The Sea), L. 109, CD. 111 <1903-1905>

Patrons without valid tickets will not be allowed entry. Out of respect for all patrons, late admission will only be allowed at suitable intervals. No children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission. Food and drinks are not allowed inside the venue.

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