Art, memory, and sun-drenched color take center stage. Ottorino Respighi paints Botticelli’s masterpieces in shimmering orchestral hues, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 captures the warmth of an American childhood evening. After intermission, Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans unleashes surging power, before Felix Mendelssohn’s exuberant “Italian” Symphony brings the night to a brilliant close.

Artists

Conner Gray Covington, guest conductor

Ashley Marie Robillard, soprano

Program

Respighi, Ottorino — Trittico botticelliano

*Barber, Samuel — Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Intermission

Clyne, Anna — Restless Oceans

Mendelssohn, Felix — Symphony No. 4, Op. 90, "Italian"

*American composer