Opening Night: Grieg, Berwald and Sibelius
Sponsored by Wilmington Gastroenterology Associates

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 8:00 PM

Elizabeth Loparits, piano
Wilmington Symphony Orchestra,
Steven Errante, conducting

Celebrate the Wilmington Symphony’s 38th season with a musical tour of Scandinavia as UNCW faculty member performs the beloved Piano Concerto in a minor of Norwegian Edvard Grieg, a cornerstone of piano repertoire and one of the most enduringly-popular of all concertos.
Your Nordic excursion sets off with Swedish composer Franz Berwald’s most often performed work - - the dramatically compelling Tragic Overture to Estrella de Soria - - before visiting the beautiful Finnish landscape in Jan Sibelius’ triumphal Symphony No. 3 in C.