Enjoy an evening of decadent music by three romantic masters—a season opener you don't want to miss!
When Brahms was only twenty, Schumann declared him “the chosen one” to continue Beethoven's symphonic tradition. This pressure weighed heavily on the composer, who stated "you have no idea how it feels to hear behind you the tramp of a giant." After fifteen years of painstaking work, Brahms's dramatic First Symphony does not disappoint.

Bruch followed in the footsteps of Brahms's Romantic classicism. His well-loved Violin Concerto No. 1 will be performed by the celebrated young violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, whose playing has been described as “spakling, sensual and personal.”