The Shippensburg Symphony & Chorus

Conductor Robert Trevino with oboist, Dwight Parry, and featuring The Shippensburg Festival Symphony. The series begins with one of the great and later masterpieces of Richard Strauss and Mozart. The subject of the symphony is a lament in response to the firebombing of Dresden during the Second World War where the composer saw his beloved city destroyed. Concert I continues with a performance featuring the largest oboe concerto ever written, also by Strauss. What follows is completely unexpected. Mozart's famous Symphony No. 40, his largest scale minor symphony.