Season Finale
The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Schrickel close out the season with a program featuring two of the world’s best-known symphonies along with a world premiere by composer John Tartaglia. Created for an ensemble of 9 brass instruments, Tartaglia’s Epiphanìa serves as a prelude to Schubert’s lyrical, autumnal Unfinished Symphony. Brahms waited until he was 44 to compose his first symphony because he was afraid he could never measure up to the standard set by Beethoven. His stormy, ruminative and ultimately triumphal Symphony #1 served notice to the world that the symphonic form had acquired another master.

William Schrickel, conductor

John Tartaglia—Epiphanìa for Brass (2002)
(Premiere Performance)
Franz Schubert—Symphony #8, D. 759 in B minor (“Unfinished”)
Johannes Brahms—Symphony #1, op. 68 in C minor

Normandale Lutheran Church, Edina