Heroes

Saturday, April 16, 2011 8:00 PM

Reading Symphony Orchestra

Venue: Sovereign Performing Arts Center

Program:

Mendelssohn - Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Miaskovsky - Cello Concerto
Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"

Amit Peled, cello

Mendelssohn’s Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was originally composed as a concert overture. The rest of the music as we know it – including the famous wedding march, was composed much later, toward the end of his brief life. Miaskovsky was a great friend of Prokofiev, a fellow student in the Moscow Conservatory. Many of their works contained similar themes; in fact, they wrote a symphony together (which has, unfortunately, been lost). We conclude the concert with a performance of Beethoven’s great Eroica symphony, a work not performed by the RSO since the early 2000s. This is part of the ongoing RSO performance of the Beethoven symphonies, begun with Maestro Constantine last season.