Passion, Peace & Power Program Notes

September 8, 2024
Program Notes by J. Michael Allsen

The Arizona Philharmonic opens its seventh season with a celebratory work by the American composer Gwyneth Walker.

We then welcome our concertmaster, Katherine McLin, to center stage, as soloist in the Mendelssohn violin concerto. Arthur Honegger’s Pastorale d’été, musical portrait of a lovely summer day, and Haydn’s good-humored Oxford symphony round off this program.

American composer Gwyneth Walker completed this three-movement work in 1983. You will hear a pair of brilliant fanfare-style movements surrounding a more relaxed Interlude.

PROGRAM

GWYNETH WALKER

Fanfare, Interlude, and Finale

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Concerto in E minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 64

– Allegro molto appasionata
– Andante
– Allegretto non troppo
– Allegro molto vivace

Katherine McLin, violin


INTERMISSION


ARTHUR HONEGGER

Pastorale d’été

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Symphony No. 92 in G Major (Oxford)

– Adagio—Allegro spiritoso
– Adagio
– Menuetto
– Presto

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