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VISUAL PROGRAM NOTES

December 8 Symphony Concert

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky- Fantasy Overture to “Romeo and Juliet”


Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Romeo and Juliet is an orchestral work in the style of an Overture-Fantasy and is based on Shakespeare's play of the same name.

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Tchaikovsky with his wife Antonina Miliukova during their honeymoon in 1877

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An 1870 oil painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting Romeo and Juliet's famous balcony scene

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Horn Concerto No. 3

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works. The Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, K. 447, was completed between 1784 and 1787.

Mozart, from a section of an unfinished 1782 portrait by Joseph Lange

A modern double horn by Yamaha Corporation - Yamaha Music Europe, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56454994

Reinhold Glière- Symphony No. 2


Reinhold Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. Symphony No. 2 was composed in 1907, and Serge Koussevitzky conducted the premiere on January 23, 1908, in Berlin.

Reinhold Glière before 1917

Sergei Koussevitzky (1874–1951), conductor, composer, and double-bassist

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