Strings Music Festival

Opening Night Orchestra: Beethoven Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"

Kick off the season with a sumptuous program, beginning with an evocation of the humpback whale in a work for solo harp by 40-year-old Japanese-American composer Takuma Itoh and two works by Arnold Schoenberg, each celebrating its 150th anniversary and composed in the deliciously rich tonal language of turn-of-the-century Vienna. A fresh arrangement of Beethoven's epic Eroica Symphony will ring in the new season with peals of triumph and joy.

Michael Sachs, Conductor
Yolanda Kondonassis, Harp

Players
Martin Chalifour
Katherine Bormann
Claude Sim
Genevieve Smelser
Ellen Pendleton Troyer
John Macfarlane
Jeff Zehngut
Ioana Missits
Minju Kim
Erina Laraby Goldwasser
Catherine Brubaker
Paul Murphy
Karissa Shivone
Tanya Ell Woolfrey
David Rosen
Scott Dixon
Owen Levine
Christina Smith
Elizabeth Koch Tiscione
Robert Woolfrey
Elise Wagner
Nathaniel Silberschlag
Amy Sanchez
Michael Tiscione
Jeremy Epp
Yolanda Kondonassis
Michael Sachs

Takuma Itoh Koholā Sings
(b. 1984) Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

Arnold Schoenberg Notturno for Strings and Harp
(1874-1951) Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 “Transfigured Night”

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 “Eroica”
(1770-1827) Allegro con brio
(arr. Higgins) Marcia funebre. Adagio assai
Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio
Finale. Allegro molto

No children under 6.