WINTER SERENITIES

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Vaughn-Williams

Summa - Part

Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra - Goossens, Alicia Rockenhauser, soloist

Symphony #1 - Mahler

Our winter concert begins with Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" for double string orchestra and string quartet. The richness and power of this music will overwhelm your spirit and take you to a place of serenity and contemplation, certainly something to embrace in the cold of a New Hampshire winter. Our strings will keep you in that place with Arvo Part's beautiful "Summa". We'll then bring our wonderful principal oboe, Alicia Rockenhauser to the stage for a performance of Eugene Goossen's Oboe Concerto. Our concert will conclude with Gustav Mahler's First Symphony. Although not strictly programmatic, the symphony still offers glimpses of summer days in the mountains, the sounds of birds, a picnic in the meadows, and a majestic sunset in the Austrian mountains. Mahler's music is distinctive and continues to thrill audiences around the world.

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