Lalo & Beethoven

Janet Sung’s first appearance with the TSO was in November 2010 when she performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.  Called “one of the outstanding young violinists of her generation” by the great Dorothy Delay, Sung was a protégé of the legendary teacher and performer Josef Gingold.  She holds the post of associate professor of music at DePaul University in Chicago and is equally adept as a performer and teacher.  Janet Sung is very dedicated to education and working with young people.  During her last visit to Tacoma, she showed up at a Tacoma Youth Symphony Association rehearsal and spent 15 or 20 minutes playing and talking to the young musicians. 

Symphonie Espagnol, as its name implies, is full of Spanish themes and flavor.  Written as a symphony, it is regarded by most violinists today as one of the great concertos for the instrument. 

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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” straddles the Classical and Romantic eras with its perfect proportions and heroic overtones.   Even without reference to the subtitle Beethoven scrawled onto the manuscript ("to an unknown hero"), there is the sense that it is about something, that it is trying to make a statement beyond the music itself.  

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