The Classics

Our season kicks off Jon Nakamatsu, truly a “pianists’ pianist,” performing Beethoven’s first concerto, a work that the composer created for himself to make a splash when he left his sleepy hometown of Bonn and took up residence in big city Vienna. Beethoven’s favorite composer was Handel, so we’ll open the season with one of the Baroque master’s indelible overtures (brought up-to-date by none other than Mozart), but it’s Papa Haydn — Beethove...