Experience a very special selection of orchestral pieces in a concert highlighting the lyrical beauty and powerful musical expression of three less well-known composers.

♪ Samual Coleridge-Taylor’s Idyll opens the concert with its tender melodies and pastoral elegance, setting a reflective and poetic musical tone.

♪ Fanny Mendelssohn’s dramatic cantata Hero und Leander follows, weaving the tragic Greek myth into music of sweeping passion and vivid orchestration.

♪ The program culminates with Florence Price’s groundbreaking Symphony No. 1—a bold musical statement blending classical forms with African American spirituals and folk rhythms, and adding an iconic voice to twentieth century American music.

Join us in celebrating the breadth of orchestral music and its enduring power to surprise, delight, and move the human spirit.

FANNY, FLORENCE & SAM

By Sonoma County Philharmonic

FANNY, FLORENCE & SAM

April 18 & 19, 2026