Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra March 3, 2011

The season finale opens with Mozart's stormy Overture to 'Don Giovanni' and is followed by Johannes Brahms' 'Nanie,' a moving contemplation of the fleeting nature of life and beauty inspired by the poetry of Friedrich Schiller. The concert is crowned by a performance of one of the most cherished compositions in all of musical history - Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, also inspired by the writings of Schiller. By utilizing the melody of a simple country tune, Beethoven weaves the music into higher and higher orders of complexity, unfolding a message of redemption, spanning the entire spectrum of human thought and feeling.