MSO: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2024 at 7:30 pm
SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Gallo Center for the Arts
Featuring
Nicholas Hersh, conductor
Tai Murray, violin
PROGRAM
Astor Piazzolla: Tangazo (Variations on Buenos Aires)
Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3 in G minor
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Nicholas Hersh): Fugue in G minor BWV 578 “Little Fugue”
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Hersh has put together a wonderfully exciting and energetic program for our April Classics concert. This program opens with Louise Farrenc’s lyrical and spirited Symphony No. 3. Then we will explore J. S. Bach’s “Little Fugue” in G minor with an arrangement by Music Director Hersh himself. We’ll close out the evening with Mendelssohn’s uplifting and energetic Violin Concerto in E minor featuring Tai Murray. This concerto remains among the world’s most prominent and highly regarded violin concertos in history.