Name: Nina Tso-Ning Fan Plays “The Lark Ascending”
Start: 2026-03-14T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-14T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 900 Summit Ave, St Paul, MN 55105-3029, United States

$Nina Tso-Ning Fan Plays \u201cThe Lark Ascending\u201d$

This program features three composers of the British Isles and their impressionist works inspired by nature, including the SPCO debut of Grace Williams’ “Sea Sketches” for String Orchestra, a 20th century suite of five movements, each showcasing a different mood of the sea. At the heart of the program lies an SPCO favorite: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending”, a single movement pastoral work written after George Meredith’s poem by the same name depicting the rise and fall of a skylark in flight. Here, SPCO violinist Nina Tso-Ning Fan delivers a stunning interpretation of its beautifully untethered cadenzas.