(mellow electronic music) (bright electronic music) (no audio) (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music continues) (audience applauds and cheers) (audience applauding continues) - Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the final concert of the season with the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center.

(audience cheers and applauds) Tonight, we have a program that continues our Schumann symphony cycle, and we focus on the relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann.

The first two pieces that you hear on the program really reference their beautiful relationship.

The first piece that we'll be playing by Robert Schumann, "Overture, Scherzo and Finale", was written after the great success of his first symphony, but most importantly, the wonderful event of Clara and Robert getting married.

So it's a very celebratory piece.

The piano concerto that you're gonna hear later on by Clara Schumann is an unfinished work, but the intention behind the concerto was to give this piece to Robert Schumann as a birthday present.

So the love that they shared for one another was, is so palpable, and so part of the sort of history and the importance behind Roberts Schumann's output and to be able to reflect on these two pieces that were great celebrations to their love is a remarkable treat.

So, I hope you enjoy both Robert and Clara Schumann's music on the first half.

Thank you.

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(gentle piano music continues) (gentle piano music continues) (no audio) (audience applauding) (audience applauding continues) (audience applauding continues) (audience applauding continues) (audience applauding) (audience applauding continues) Welcome back to the second half of tonight's program, everyone, where we get a very exciting world premier by James Lee III.

When we commissioned this work, we knew that we wanted to reflect upon the relationship between Clara and Robert, but also really think about what that meant and what elements we wanted to bring out.

The very beginning of this work opens in a very beautiful, what I feel like atmospheric serenade.

There's beautiful string writing, beautiful trumpet solos in the beginning, and then very quickly, it shifts into something a bit more filled with anxiety, filled with sort of the reality of their relationship, which wasn't always easy due to Robert Schumann's mental health.

But at the very end, James Lee puts a sort of climactic ending to kind of give us hope, exciting hope, thrilling hope for what is, you know, their future and their love that they always shared.

Then we then end with the "Symphony No.

4", which for me is reflecting upon the incredible and tremendous innovation that comes from Schumann and his writing.

I believe that he really wrote these symphonies as a cathartic measure throughout his life to reflect upon his mental health struggles.

But this last symphony has something that we, I think, all can reflect on in many, many ways in our lives.

So I hope you enjoy, firstly, the world premier, and then lastly Schumann's "Symphony No.

4."

Thank you.

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