Mozart and Strauss

Dates and Times for this Past Event

• Sunday, Sep 29, 2024  2pm
• Saturday, Sep 28, 2024  7:30pm
• Friday, Sep 27, 2024  7:30pm

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The concert is dedicated to the Sid Richardson Foundation.

As an adventurous young lad, the composer Richard Strauss lost his way climbing up one of the Alps. Later, at the height of his compositional powers, he captured that experience in a piece of symphonic music that details eleven hours, dawn to nightfall, of a treacherous climb. FWSO Principal Guest Conductor Kevin John Edusei will open the concert with Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni, which pivots from high melodrama to a more comic tone, and a rarely heard modernist treat by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky.