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Plainfield Symphony 94th Season Opening Concert: Korngold & Brahms

Plainfield Symphony 94th Season Opening Concert: Korngold & Brahms






The Plainfield

Symphony launches its 94th season on Saturday October 12, with Austrian

film and romantic music composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D. The featured soloist will

be Plainfield Symphony’s own talented concertmistress Evelyn Estava. Korngold

is most widely known for his 1938 Oscar-winning score to The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn. Evelyn has

commented that in learning the concerto, she has found among the very

movie-like themes, a very deep Austrian soul. It is no coincidence that he


dedicated this piece to Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler and last femme


fatale of the 20th century.






Symphony

No. 2 in D major
, Op. 73,

was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877.

Its genial, outgoing character, among other factors, sets it apart from Brahms's

three other symphonies This work is the one understandably regarded as his

"pastoral" symphony, inviting comparison to Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony. It is perhaps the most

directly endearing of the four symphonies he composed.

Charles

Prince will be returning as principal conductor and the concert begins at 7 pm

at the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church.

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Tickets are available at the website: www.plainfieldsymphony.org and at the door.







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