This summer, Lakeside is partnering with the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College & Conservatory to offer Pre-Concert Lectures before select Lakeside Symphony Orchestra concerts. These engaging talks provide historical and musical context to help audiences gain a deeper appreciation of the evening’s performance.
Join Dr. Christina Fuhrmann for "Same Key, Different Worlds."
Both pieces this evening are in the same key (F major). But they could not be more different stylistically. Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 in F Major is a contemplative, passionate work that surrounds the listener in what Clara Schumann called “the mysterious charm of the woods and forests.”
In contrast, George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F Major represents what the composer called “the young, enthusiastic spirit of American life.” Effortlessly bridging the classical and the popular, Gershwin blends concert music with the Charleston, blues and jazz.
Fuhrmann is Professor of Music History at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music and edits BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. Her publications have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, A-R Editions and Cambridge University Press, and her work has received awards from the North American British Music Studies Association.
