López & Beethoven — The Season Finale!

López & Beethoven — The Season Finale! brings together two complementary visions of hope. Beethoven’s “Symphony no. 9” resounds as a call to universal fraternity, an enduring humanist statement where the choral finale affirms joy as a shared horizon. Responding to this ideal, composer-in-residence Jimmy López offers a contemporary metaphor inspired by the migration of monarch butterflies, a fragile yet determined journey echoing human movement and resilience. Premiered by the orchestra, López’s “Symphony no. 6” unfolds within a living, shifting natural world, animated by energy and light. Together, these works trace a shared path toward connection and collective aspiration.