The annual “green” concert offers music of brilliant colors and cooling shades on a late summer evening. Der Freischütz, an early masterpiece of Romantic opera, unfolds in a fairy-tale forest. Françaix’s oboe concerto depicts a clock assembled from diverse flowers, each blooming at a different hour. Simon Parmet said of Sibelius’s 2nd Symphony, “It is a song of praise to summer and the joy of living.”
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