Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture (1880) Brahms – Symphony No.1, op.68, C minor (1855–1876) This all-Brahms program gives the listener two distinct views into Brahms. In Academic Festival Overture we see Brahms the joker; after accepting an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau, Brahms was required to write a piece as a thank you to the University. To fulfill his obligation, he wrote Academic Festival Overture, which used collegiate drinking songs as musical materials. Brahms’s first symphony is a more serious work. After Robert Schumann wrote that Brahms would continue “Beethoven’s inheritance,” Brahms developed a complex about writing his first symphony. The work took him 21 years to write, and in it, we see Brahms balance an homage to Beethoven with his own compositional style.
Friday, September 22
Meadows Symphony Orchestra Concert
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium / Owen Arts Center
$17 for adults; $13 for seniors; $11 for students, faculty and staff
For more about this event: https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEvents/Calendar
Location, Parking and ADA Access: https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEvents/Parking
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