Season Finale Classical Concert:
Appalachia & Spring

Thursday, August 20 at 7:30 PM
Tower Theatre, Bend
Festival Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
Tessa Lark, violin

COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring
EDGAR MEYER Violin Concerto
R. SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, “Spring”

The season finale includes the most iconic American orchestral work of all time, Appalachian Spring, by the Dean of American Music, Aaron Copland. Violinist Tessa Lark wowed Sunriver audiences in 2024 with her performance of Michael Torke’s Sky, and she’ll do the same this year with the bluegrass-inflected Violin Concerto by Edgar Meyer. The season closes with one of the greatest Romantic symphonies ever composed: Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, “Spring.”