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Benjamin Simon, conductor
Avi Avital, mandolin
Brian Thorsett, tenor
Gioachino Rossini: L’italiana in Algeri Overture
Giovanni Paisiello: Concerto for Mandolin & Strings in E-flat major
Gioachino Rossini: String Sonata #2 in A major
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 in A major, Op. 90 (“Italian”)
Come with us to bella Italia, where we'll be celebrating the leap-year birthday of Gioachino Rossini. The most famous musician of his day, Rossini once boasted that he could "set a laundry list to music." On this program we perform a string sonata written at the age of 12, the stirring overture to one of his most popular operas, and a bon bon with noted Bay Area tenor Brian Thorsett.
Our concert also features the much-anticipated return of mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital, performing Paisiello's delightful Mandolin Concerto. Avital recently became the first mandolinist signed by the prestigious Deustche Gramophon label.
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