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Mendelssohn Taking Flight
May 12-14, 2023
Program

Masterworks Series

 

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Carolyn Kuan, music director

 

MENDELSSOHN TAKING FLIGHT
Friday, May 12, 2023 / 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 13, 2023 / 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 14, 2023 / 3:00 p.m.
Belding Theater, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

 

ALEXANDRA ARRIECHE, conductor
ADÉ WILLIAMS, violin

GABRIELA LENA FRANK
(b. 1972)

  

Elegía Andina (Andean Elegy)

OTTORINO RESPIGHI
(1879-1936)

 

  

Gli ucelli (The Birds)
   I. Preludio (Prelude, after Bernardo Pasquini)
   II. La colomba (The Dove, after Jacques de Gallot)
   III. La gallina (The Hen, after Jean-Phillipe Rameau)
   IV. L’usignolo (The Nightingale—unknown 17th-century English composer)
   V. Il cuccù (The Cuckoo, after Bernardo Pasquini)

-INTERMISSION-

FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL
(1809-1847)

 

Overture

 

FELIX MENDELSSOHN
(1809-1847) 

 

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
   I. Allegro molto appassionata
   II. Andante
   III. Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace
   Adé Williams, violin

The post of Music Director is endowed by The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation.
Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance.
As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, please turn off watch alarms and cell phones.
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

The 2022-23 Masterworks Series is presented by

The 2022-23 Masterworks Series is also sponsored by
The Elizabeth M. and Harriette M. Landon Foundation

This concert is sponsored by
The Koski Memorial Concert

Asylum Hill Congregational Church
Duncaster
Lux Bond & Green
Richard Ott Interior Spaces
The Hartt School
Program Notes
Overture in C major (ca. 1830)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Born November 14, 1805 in Hamburg. Died May 14, 1847 in Berlin)
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844)
Felix Mendelssohn (Born February 3, 1809 in Hamburg Died November 4, 1847 in Leipzig)
Elegía Andina (“Andean Elegy”) (2000)
Gabriela Lena Frank (Born September 26, 1972 in Berkeley, California)
The Birds (1927)
Ottorino Respighi (Born July 9, 1879 in Bologna Died April 18, 1936 in Rome)
About the Artists
Alexandra Arrieche
conductor
Adé Williams
violin
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