Robin Sharp
Concertmaster for SFCO Mainstage 2: Greetings and Farewell
Sat, Dec 31
|Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
Program: Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8, D. 759 (“Unfinished”) PDQ Bach Unbegun Symphony Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Amaryn Olmeda, violin soloist Franz Josef Haydn Symphony No. 45 in F# minor (“Farewell”)
Time & Location
Dec 31, 2022, 7:30 PM
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, Hertz Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
About the Event
From Ben Simon:
My final MainStage program goes from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again. Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (he died too soon to finish it) is paired with the wacky musical humor of PDQ Bach’s (the last and oddest of JS Bach’s twenty-odd children) Unbegun Symphony, for which he was born too late to start! My chosen soloist for this final program is the remarkable Amaryn Olmeda, a 14-year old virtuso who is already making her mark on the classical music scene. Amaryn is a tremendous talent with unlimited potential, and will performing one of my favorite violin concerti. Felix Mendelssohn’s famous Violin Concerto E minor.
We finish this concert with the very apt Farewell Symphony by Franz Josef Haydn, in which the players leave the stage one by one during the final movement. Composed as a humorous reminder to his employer Prince Esterhazy that his musicians…