Alan Heatherington:

For the first time, we will bring you an entire season of favorite works by favorite Romantic Period composers, all of whom wrote to express the full range of human emotion while communicating directly to the listener. Our traversal includes three works by Beethoven, the seminal master; two by Tchaikovsky, the consummate romanticist; two by Dvorÿ‡k, the great romantic nationalist; two by Chopin, the archetypical romantic soul; and additional heartwarming masterpieces by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Sibelius and others. Every program is certain to provide a richly satisfying evening of great music performed by the brilliant professional musicians of our orchestra.