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Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 19:30
"Everything rejoices and hopes when spring renews itself," said Friedrich Schiller. Right on time for the beginning of spring, the musicians of the Young Symphony Orchestra at the State High School for Music invite the audience on an exciting musical journey from the mid-18th to the mid-20th century. Joseph Haydn's very special Symphony in F minor, "La passione," already suggests a connection between the Easter and Passion time and Ostara - the Germanic goddess of spring, fertility, and dawn. The... Read full text

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Musicians

Bruno BorralhinhoConductor
Junges Sinfonieorchester Dresden am Landesgymnasium für Musik

Program

Joseph HaydnSymphony No. 49 in F minor "La passione"
Frederick Delius"Idylle de printemps" for orchestra
Lili Boulanger"D'un matin de printemps" Tone poem
Jean Sibelius"Spring Song" Tone poem
Antonín Dvořák"The Wood Dove" Symphonic poem
Johann (son) Strauss"Roses from the South" Waltz
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