The Toledo Symphony will celebrate its 80th birthday with variations on orchestra’s inaugural concert Friday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. in the Peristyle.
That first concert included an American premiere and works by Mozart, Ravel, and Brahms.
This concert features pianist, Nicholas McCarthy – who was born without a right hand – performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto for Left Hand.
The orchestra will also give the American premiere of Samuel Adler’s Seventh Symphony. Adler a renowned composer and educator, now resides in Perrysburg.
The orchestra will open the concert with conductor Alain Trudel’s variations on Mozart’s “ah vus dirai-je maman” as well as Mozart’s as well as Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik.”
The program will conclude with Johannes Broahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Haydn.
The celebration will include a birthday cake and a champagne toast.
Formed in 1943 as The Friends of Music and incorporated in 1951 as the Toledo Orchestra Association, Inc., the Toledo Symphony Orchestra has grown from a core group of twenty-two part-time musicians to a regional orchestra that employs over fifty full-time professional musicians.
The Friends of Music performed their inaugural concert on Sept. 28, 1943with conductor Edgar Schenkman at Macomber Vocational High School Auditorium.
