Rossen’s season as the music director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra continues on November 3 with “Eternal Light,” a program devoted to works by Aaron Jay Kernis and Richard Strauss. Rossen first leads the orchestra in Kernis’s Colored Field. Featuring cellist Susan Babini, Kernis’s work is a response to the Holocaust that depicts bold themes including good, evil, and the human experience.
The program continues with Strauss’s Death and the Transfiguration and the Dance from the composer’s opera Salome. The two works provide a complement to Kernis’s concerto: Death and the Transfiguration offers a similar sense of musical transcendence while the Dance from Salome offers exotic modes and intervals.