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As an adventurous young lad, the composer Richard Strauss lost his way climbing up one of the Alps. Later, at the height of his compositional powers, he captured that experience in a piece of symphonic music that details eleven hours, dawn to nightfall, of a treacherous climb.  FWSO Principal Guest Conductor Kevin John Edusei will open the concert with Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni, which pivots from high melodrama to a more comic tone, and a rarely heard modernist treat by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky.

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Mozart and Strauss

Sundance Square

When the Parker Quartet first performed at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times wrote, “Superb string quartets are plentiful ... [but this] performance set the group apart as something extraordinary.” The Grammy Award­–winning quartet’s reputation and musical command have only continued to grow—as has its remarkably broad repertoire that includes both timeless staples and music by today’s boldest artists. Experience a pair of late 19th–century masterworks by Zemlinsky and Brahms, as well as Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters—a Carnegie Hall commission called “a fascinating, virtuosic, and spectacularly colorful journey ... proof that the string quartet genre is still alive, well, and inspiring brilliant new work” (The Washington Post).

Alexander von Zemlinsky

Composer

Events

27 - 29 Sep, 2024

Mozart and Strauss · Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

Mar 6, 2025

Parker Quartet · Carnegie Hall

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