Beethoven, Rossini & Brandt

Rossini’s Overture to La gazza ladra blends humor and pathos, employing the composer’s trademark slow orchestral crescendo building to an energetic conclusion. The rhythmic vitality of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony has made it one of the composer’s most enduringly popular symphonies, known as “the apotheosis of the dance.” Professor of Cello Norman Fischer is the soloist in Anthony Brandt’s new chamber concerto, commissioned for the Shepherd Schoo...