As the BSO continues to imagine a welcome spring after one of Minnesota’s frigid winters, we open the third concert of the season with Li Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture, a work that is becoming familiar to concertgoers across the world. Bright and colorful, it will set your heart in the right mood to welcome this year’s MNSOTA Mary West Solo Competition Grand Prize winner, Lorelei Schoenhard, who will perform the first movement of Erich Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35.
Rounding out our concert of sheer optimism will be the so-called “Italian” Symphony in A Major by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Originally conceived as “Blue Skies in A Major,” Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 will warm your heart with joyous melodies and a singular aspect of composition that was unprecedented. What is it? Come and all will be revealed.
By the way, we promise you won’t even need to turn up the heat in the car on the way home!
Note the new concert start time of 2 pm
