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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.