The Cornell Symphony Orchestra presents a spring-inspired program that celebrates renewal, color, and vitality. The concert opens with Debussy’s Printemps, a luminous orchestral work evoking the freshness and energy of the season. It continues with the first movement of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor, featuring Jae Ahn, winner of the Annual Concerto Competition in the Symphony category. The program concludes with Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, “Spring,” a work full of the exuberance that captures the joy and awakening of the season.

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