Carnegie Hall

Experience the week’s final performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Music Director Lahav Shani. Tonight’s program continues their powerful survey of symphonic pillars by Tchaikovsky and rarely heard works by foundational Israeli composer Ben-Haim. Wonderfully orchestrated and excitingly varied across its four movements, Ben-Haim’s Second Symphony is the composer’s grandest symphonic creation. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, “Pathétique,” premiered just days before the composer’s death, and it is one of the most impassioned and poetic farewells in music.