Sat 9/24 @ 8PM
The Akron Symphony rolls out the romantics for its opening night at EJ Thomas Hall, with a program featuring pieces by three later romantic-era composers from three different countries. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 1909 Piano Concert No. 3 in D minor is a virtuoso showpiece that will allow guest soloist Antonio Pompa-Baldi — a past winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition (1999) and now a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music —to shine.
The program also includes the English composer Edward Elgar’s very familiar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D, composed in 1901, which gave us the British patriotic anthem “Land of Hope and Glory,” and Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ 1915 Symphony No. 5.
Tickets are $25-$55.