Fridays at Finney: Oberlin Orchestra

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This week's edition of "Fridays at Finney" presents the Oberlin Orchestra in an all-Beethoven program with guest conductor Robert Spano '84, six-time Grammy-winning music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Aspen Music Festival and School, and music director designate of the Fort Worth Symphony.

The concert features Oberlin Conservatory Professor of Piano Peter Takács, a world-renowned expert in the piano music of Beethoven, as soloist in the composer's third piano concerto.

Program:

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37    Ludwig van Beethoven 
     Allegro con brio
     Largo
     Rondo–Allegro
          Peter Takács, piano

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, "Eroica"     Beethoven
     Allegro con brio
     Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
     Scherzo: Allegro vivace
     Finale: Allegro molto

About the featured artists:
Robert Spano
Peter Takács

View the December 10 program

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