THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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MENDELSSOHN’S “ITALIAN” SYMPHONY

May 25 | 7:30pm

Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony was inspired by a trip to the country that bears its name, and includes music inspired by local folk dances as well as a solemn religious procession the composer observed in Naples. Our very own Hai-Xin Wu performs Vieuxtemps’s Fifth Violin Concerto, a work that displays the full range of the instrument’s expressive capacity, from lilting lines to frenetic storms of rapid notes. The program opens with Haydn’s playful and light-hearted Symphony no. 64, whose Latin subtitle refers to changes brought by the passage of time.

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