A Bohemian Rhapsody

We open our season with bold statements—from the first notes of Robert Schumann’s achingly romantic Fourth Symphony, the seeds of burgeoning passion and inexpressible joy are planted. Writing this work to his new young bride—whom he had finally married after an agonizing year-long struggle to get her father’s permission to let the wedding go forward—he poured his whole self into this glorious music, running the field from tempestuous struggle to ...