Experience a very special selection of orchestral pieces in a concert highlighting the lyrical beauty and powerful musical expression of three less well-known composers.

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♪ Samual Coleridge-Taylor’s Idyll opens the concert with its tender melodies and pastoral elegance, setting a reflective and poetic musical tone.

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♪ Fanny Mendelssohn’s dramatic cantata Hero und Leander follows, weaving the tragic Greek myth into music of sweeping passion and vivid orchestration.

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♪ The program culminates with Florence Price’s groundbreaking Symphony No. 1 — a bold musical statement blending classical forms with African American spirituals and folk rhythms, and adding an iconic voice to twentieth century American music.

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Join us in celebrating the breadth of orchestral music and its enduring power to surprise, delight, and move the human spirit.