Mahler’s Symphony No. 1

Music Director Michael Francis constructs a program of massive emotional shifts for The Florida Orchestra at the Mahaffey Theater. After opening with Mozart’s playful Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, the orchestra welcomes violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley to perform his own composition, Fidl-Fantazye: A Klezmer Concerto. The piece requires the soloist to bend notes and wail in the traditional klezmer style. The concert culminates in Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, a monumental work that builds from a whisper into a blazing, triumphant finale.