Season Opening: Manfred Honeck’s Pastoral and Elektra

What better way to open a new season than with the Pastoral Symphony , a visionary work that opened new possibilities for symphonic music and gave it a vivid narrative voice? Honeck juxtaposes its evocation of Beethoven’s love of nature – where flowing streams and birdsong yield to the exhilaration of a thunderstorm and radiant thanksgiving – with his own Suite from Strauss’s Elektra .. Set agains