The Amadeus Concert Ensemble's next performance is coming up and is titled "The Lighter Side of Beethoven". The concert is free and open to the public and is on Sunday, February 16th at 4:30pm. The program features "lighter" works by Beethoven, as well as seldom-heard works, including a fragment from an opera that he composed before Fidelio, instrumental selections from his Knights' Ballet, an excerpt from a cantata that he wrote at just eighteen years old, and numerous folk songs.
The soloists include Mary-Hollis Hundley, soprano, Jacqueline Brecheen, soprano, Diana Salesky, alto, John Overholt, tenor, Michael Anthony McGee, bass-baritone, the Knoxville Symphony Youth Choir, and the Amadeus Concert Ensemble orchestra, conducted by Brian Salesky.
Learn more about the music in this interview with Morning Concert host, Melony Dodson.
