Program Notes

Our season finale concert will feature the outstanding members of the HCYO joining the symphony in a side-by-side performance of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture. The symphony will also perform Bach’s Violin Concerto in E Major featuring our consummate concertmaster, Phil Johnson.

Once Beethoven’s music became known in the early 19th century, it was a free for all in the symphonic music world—everyone wanted to be bigger and more dramatic. Audience members will be amazed by the symphony’s first ever performance of Mahler’s grand Symphony No. 1 “Titan,” followed by the biggest “boom” of classical music, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

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