American Classical Orchestra - Schumann, Grieg & Sarasate

The ACO brings its 2022-23 season to a close with a program of romantic music. Schumann’s Spring Symphony, written in 1841 (the year he met his wife Clara), is said to be inspired by Adolph Böttger’s poem  (). Accordingly, the opening brass fanfare seems to herald the first days of spring. Spanish composer and violin virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate’s popular Carmen Fantasy stands as a testament to his prodigious skills, and is based on Bizet’s opera  It will be performed on period violin by the internationally acclaimed artist Rachell Ellen Wong, recipient of the prestigious 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a founding member of the NYC-based New Amsterdam Concert, a period-instrument string ensemble specializing in music from the Renaissance to the High Baroque. The program concludes with Grieg’s  ( the composer’s longest orchestral song based on an old Norse poem about a man who, lost in the mountains, is lured to his death by the Erl-King’s daughter. Like much of Grieg’s work, this one is…