SCENES FROM SCOTLAND
Saturday, June 24, 7:30 p.m., The Clark Family Auditorium, St. Mary's Academy, Portland
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Luca Benucci
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Zvonimir Hačko
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Chi Yong Yun
SCENES FROM SCOTLAND
Saturday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.
The Clark Family Auditorium, St. Mary's Academy, Portland
Luca Benucci, French Horn (Italy)   
Chi Yong Yun, piano (Korea)
​Festival Orchestra     
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor    
Martinů: Canzone No. 2     
                 from Toccata e due canzoni, Op. H.311 (1946) 
Richard Strauss: Concerto for Horn No. 1 in E-flat
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor "Scottish"
Afforded travel opportunities available only to the privileged, the young Mendelssohn took a tour of the British Isles and visited sites in Wales and Scotland. While there, he was inspired by the beauty of Scottish landscape and jotted down themes which later became the basis of his Third Symphony.