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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 2:30PM

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This is a video of the following concert. Once you complete your purchase you will receive an email with the link to view this concert video. The link will expire on August 31, 2021.

NICHOLAS MCGEGAN conducts
BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH organ

HAYDN Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major “Drum Roll”
HANDEL Organ Concerto “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale”
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 in A major “Italian”

An All-German composer line-up featuring works with inventive nicknames, begins with Haydn’s penultimate symphony, No. 103, which demands full attention from the opening timpani drumroll and a sublime slow movement that elicited an immediate encore at its premiere in London.

Marvel at the sound of the 4,535-pipe Lay Family Concert Organ in Handel’s witty “Cuckoo and the Nightingale” Concerto, in which the organ’s wind stops seem to twitter like a cuckoo and warble like a nightingale.

Inspired by the art, landscape and vitality of Italy and the people Mendelssohn met during his trip, his last Fourth Symphony is brimming with rhythmic energy and counterpoint, and is a major workout for the orchestra.

“The whole country had such a festive air that I felt as if I were a young prince making his entry. I have once more begun to compose with fresh vigor, and the Italian symphony makes rapid progress; it will be the happiest piece I have ever written, especially the last movement.”

Felix Mendelssohn

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