September 24, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - September 25, 2021 @ 9:30 pm
Friday, September 24 – 7:30 PM
Saturday, September 25 – 7:30 PM
Courtney Lewis, Music Director
Daniel Hsu, Piano
MOZART | Piano Concerto No. 20 |
BEETHOVEN | Symphony No. 1 |
Mozart’s D minor Concerto marks the first of six staggering masterpieces for piano and orchestra written between 1785 and 1786. His stormiest concerto – and an omen of the Romantic Era – was regarded by the 19th-century masters as Beethoven-ish, the highest praise possible at the time. It’s a perfect pairing with Beethoven’s First Symphony, a work in which the first few moments already foreshadow that this giant was about to change everything. Van Cliburn Piano Competition-medalist Daniel Hsu joins Courtney Lewis and the Symphony in this spectacular season opener.