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Oriol Sans and Mariana Farah, conductors
Elijah Schuh, graduate student conductor

Program: Austin: Incatenatura; Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Mozart: Requiem

Jean Sibelius’s gorgeous and enigmatic Fifth Symphony was commissioned to celebrate both Finland’s anniversary and his own 50th birthday. While tackling the emotional and compositional complexities of this work, Sibelius famously said, “As if God the Father had thrown down the shards of a mosaic from the floor of heaven and asked me to find out what it had looked like.” Special autobiographical circumstances also surrounded the composition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, the piece in the second half of this concert. Following an ambiguous and mysterious commission, and suffering through the final stages of the sickness that would take his life, Mozart believed he was writing music for his own funeral.

The performance of this incredible work will feature the Concert and Chorale Choirs and several soloists from the Mead Witter School of Music. The concert will open with the premiere of two movements of Incatenatura by Joachim Austin, winner of the 2023 Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition.