Beethoven’s Pastorale

Canyon High School, Austin

Sunday, October 16, 2022, 4:00PM

Canyon High School

Performing Arts Center

New Braunfels

Akiko Fujimoto, conductor

Eric Gratz, violin

In this program, we combine two Romantic works that maintain the texture of a Mozart-Haydn orchestra yet ring out with a splendor the earlier composers never dreamt possible: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, considered one of the greatest of its genre, and Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony, a masterclass in depicting nature that forever defined “program music.”

Program:

Mendelssohn: Concerto, Violin, op. 64, E minor

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, op. 68, F major (Pastorale)