symphonic music

“I’m trying to expand the canon of symphonic music, break through long-gatekept spaces.”

And in the final moments of the second movement, you might hear a slight influence of Philip Glass’s furiously churning symphonic music.

A chapter called “Mozart Among the Lotus Blossoms” explores the piano and Western symphonic music’s forays into modern China, concluding, “Despite the historical obstacles, the marriage of East and West now seems irrevocable.”

“This beautiful masterpiece was hidden for many, many decades,” said Teras Demko, co-director of the Organ Hall, which has a concert hall for organ, chamber and symphonic music along with an art gallery.

There’s a freshness, a lightness and vitality to his symphonic music, a grandeur that manages to be approachable and familiar — folksy, even.