Name: Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony
Start: 2026-01-16T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Marian Anderson Hall, 300 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19102

$Mendelssohn\u2019s \u201cItalian\u201d Symphony$

Dalia Stasevska Conductor
Carol Jantsch Tuba
Eastman Symphony No. 2 (“The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend’s Love for the Beloved”)—FIRST PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
Williams Tuba Concerto
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”)
Mendelssohn’s travels through Italy inspired a burst of creativity; his much-loved Fourth Symphony vividly evokes his experiences, from the coronation of a pope to sketches of ancient architecture, picturesque countryside, and the sun-burnished Mediterranean. Mendelssohn himself described this work as “blue sky in A major.” Julius Eastman’s spellbinding contemporary masterwork opens this program that also includes John Williams’s jaunty Tuba Concerto, a showcase for Principal Tuba Carol Jantsch.