KSO Offers Haydn, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Strauss

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The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra continues its 2009-10 season this week with a concert that should interest just about everyone with a pulse.  The KSO concerts are Thursday and Friday evenings, November 19-20, at 8 p.m. in the Tennessee Theatre.  Lucas Richman is conducting.

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On the bill is:

•  Joseph Haydn:  Symphony No. 16 in B-flat Major
The Symphony No. 16 from a 29-year old Haydn certainly adds fuel to the pleasant argument: 
Who is more entertaining, Mozart or Haydn? 
•  Felix Mendelssohn:  Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Benjamin Hochman
It's still the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth, but who needs an excuse to listen to this brilliant work?
•  Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Wagner's amazing Love-Death should not be missed.
•  Richard Strauss:  Der Rosenkavalier Suite
I always have to remind myself that Strauss wrote Der Rosenkavalier after the game-changing tonality of Salome.

Benjamin Hochman (photo by J. Henry Fair)
Piano soloist for the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1  



 

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