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Name: IRIS Orchestra presents Benjamin Hochman, Young Romantics at GPAC
Start: 2014-02-23T02:00+00:00
End: 2014-02-23T05:59+00:00
Location: GPAC

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IRIS Orchestra presents Benjamin Hochman, Young Romantics at GPAC

Date: 02/22/2014 8:00 PM 02/22/2014 8:00 PM 02/22/2014
Location: GPAC
1801 Exeter Road
Germantown, Tennessee 38138

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Before he achieved renown as the musical half of Gilbert & Sullivan, Arthur Sullivan was a student at the conservatory in Leipzig, where native son Felix Mendelssohn was revered. The central inspiration for Sullivan's colorful and enormously inventive Tempest was Mendelssohn's incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. We hear the master's voice directly in Mendelssohn's brilliant First Piano Concerto, performed by the poetic young pianist Benjamin Hochman in his IRIS debut. The impact of Mendelssohn's inspiration on his contemporary Robert Schumann is clear in the triumphant, glorious Second Symphony, a testament to the rich romantic climate that nourished these three singular composers.

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