Continuing our Mozart Festival, enjoy works by two contemporaries of Mozart: Joseph Bologne’s jaunty Symphony No. 2and Maria Theresia von Paradis’s Overture to The School Candidate. The Overture is her sole surviving orchestral piece and is in commedia dell’arte form—one that features many humorous character types familiar to audiences of Italian drama at the time. Mozart’s five violin concertos, composed in 1775, culminate in a Fifth that is imaginative, experimental, and technically challenging. The themes range from energetic to contemplative, and Mozart includes musical nods to French and operatic styles prevalent at the time. The program closes with Symphony No. 35, the fiery “Haffner,” which honors a former Salzburg patron. Though the story goes Mozart composed it so quickly that he forgot “every single note of it,” the symphony was incredibly well-received by the public and the king himself. Fitting with a royal fashion, this composition is bold, regal, and brings the concert and festival to a grand and exciting close.

Anthony Parnther, conductor
Aubree Oliverson, violin

BOLOGNE  Symphony No. 2
MOZART  Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major
PARADIS  Overture to The School Candidate
MOZART  Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”