In Robert Weirich’s first year as music director, he begins a three-year programming cycle with the Year of the Composer, honoring one each week. George Rochberg, Curtis Curtis-Smith, and Otto Luening are in attendance, but John Adams is not. Yizhak Schotten, viola, and Katherine Collier, piano, make their debut with Deborah Chodacki in Bruch’s Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Piano, and Viola. Curtis Curtis-Smith, piano, and Reneta Knific, violin, perform his Fantasy Pieces for Violin and Piano. Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death, four chamber pieces are performed, along with the oboe concerto with Thomas Gallant, the clarinet concerto with Larry Combs, and the Symphonies No. 35 and 39. In the final concert, Peter Bay makes his conducting debut, leading Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.
