Vaughan Williams & Mendelssohn
Friday, April 12, 2019 - Sunday, April 14, 2019
Belding Theater at The Bushnell
Friday & Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 3pm
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2, Op. 52a
Featuring
Carolyn Kuan conductor
Hartford Chorale Richard Coffey, music director
Vocal soloists to be announced
Heavenly voices will fill the Belding Theater in April! Vaughan Williams’ blissful Fantasia on “Greensleeves” was originally used in his opera, Sir John with Love, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. His haunting Dona nobis pacem is a plea for peace in the years leading up to WWII. Mendelssohn’s elegant Symphony No. 2 echoes Beethoven’s Ninth and is a celebration of the German Reformation.
Single tickets and new subscriptions are on sale now. For information on subscriptions, please call 860-987-5900 or visit www.hartfordsymphony.org.