York Symphony – Open Air Summer Series
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Conductor: Maestro Lawrence Golan
OPEN AIR SUMMER SERIES
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Heather Hill, soprano
FANNY MENDELSSOHN: Overture in C Major
SAMUEL BARBER: Knoxville: Summer Of 1915
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Suite From A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I. Overture
II. Scherzo
III. Intermezzo
IV. Nocturne
V. Wedding March
Felix Mendelssohn scored his Suite from A Midsummer Night’s Dream being inspired by Shakespeare’s play filled with fairies and spells. Mendelssohn composed the imaginative melodies to magical fanfare with Romantic-era expression. Unpublished for over 100 years, Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture In C Major builds upon its slow awakening to a lively allegro. Inspired by James Agee’s A Death in the Family, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 reminiscences about childhood memories.