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Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor Patrick Summers
Karen Gomyo violin

I. Stravinski: Feu d’artifice (Fireworks), Op. 4
W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, "Strassburg"
M. Daugherty: The Metropolis Symphony
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Igor Stravinsky’s Fireworks, which was written for the wedding of Rimsky-Korsakov’s daughter Nadezhda and composer Maximilian Steinberg, had an impact on the entire career of the great composer, as sitting alone in the audience at the premiere performance was Sergej Djagilev, who immediately invited the young composer to collaborate with him.
The 19-year-old Mozart spent most of 1775 in Salzburg in the service of Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, during which time he wrote four (according to some sources even five) violin concertos. The Concerto in G major is known as the Strassburg, not because of the city in which it was written but rather due to the popular dance of the time (the Strassburger), which we hear in the third movement.
Michael Daugherty (whose composition UFO we heard last year) touches upon yet another American symbol in his Metropolis Symphony – the composition was written on the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the Superman comic. The composer later dedicated the symphony to conductor David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.