One World Symphony
Sung Jin Hong, Artistic Director and Conductor
Emanouil Manolov, Violin
One World Symphony Vocal Artists

Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome (1924)
Antonio Vivaldi:
Concerto in G minor for Violin, Strings, Continuo,
"Summer" from The Four Seasons
Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

Friday, September 5, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity
157 Montague Street
(Corner of Clinton)
Brooklyn Heights

Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Ansche Chesed Synagogue
251 West 100th Street
(Corner of West End Ave)
Manhattan

General Admission $40
Seniors & Students $30

Extend your summer experience by joining One World Symphony's fiery season opener Italian Summer. Evoking thunderstorms and "fired up by the Sun," Vivaldi's "Summer Concerto" from The Four Seasons is among the boldest program music of the 18th century. The Four Seasons was written to accompany four sonnets which depict each season sensitively. Respighi's innovative symphonic poem Pines of Rome (1924), brimming with technicolor orchestration and lush pictorial effects, has been greeted by audiences with overwhelming popularity and ecstatic approval since its American premiere by Toscanini. Mascagni's tempestuous drama of forbidden desire and revenge, Cavalleria Rusticana, sparked the verismo style (realism), exploring not only the contemporary everyday life but also its earthy passions and psychological underpinnings and confrontational scenes. Is it worth fulfilling one's desires at the expense of others?

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