wonderfully!
They started the concert with the National Anthem, which was especially moving considering the close proximity to Sept 11th.
We thoroughly enjoyed the concert and are looking forward to the rest of the season.
Below is some information from USUO regarding the concert.
Program Notes
By Robert Markow
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Born in Bonn, December 16, 1770; died in Vienna, March 26, 1827
CONCERTO NO. 4 FOR PIANO IN G MAJOR, OP. 58
It is the nature of many concertgoers today to test the waters of new music hesitantly and carefully. Imagine then the circumstances under which Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto was given its first public performance - as one of seven(!) works all heard by the Viennese for the first time, all by the same composer, and four of them of major dimensions. This four-hour marathon...
SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN D MINOR, OP. 125 (“Choral”)
In its grandeur, elemental power, cosmic scope, and affirmation of the universal human spirit, Beethoven's Ninth (THE Ninth) embraces a world of emotional expression ranging from deep pathos to exultant joy, from demonic fury to seraphic tranquility, from motoric energy to beatific stasis. The span of this seventy-minute work seems to depict a vast structure forming “before our ears” . . . its opening moments as coming “out of the void,” as Cleveland Orchestra annotator Klaus G. Roy puts it. “Fragments begin to cohere; thematic atoms and molecules form larger structures. To most listeners, the...
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