Following intermission, the symphony program continues with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major for string orchestra. The youthful Mozart left his family and birthplace in Salzburg in 1781 to pursue his fortunes in Vienna. Well more than 100 years later, the famous German composer, Richard Strauss, also would leave his home to take a post directing the Vienna Court Opera.

As a young man, Richard Strauss composed works for wind instruments that harkened back to the suites and divertimenti of Mozart’s era. The wind section of the Bainbridge Orchestra will perform the Praeludium from the composer’s early Suite in Bb Major for Winds. So break out the schnitzel and sachertorte and join us.