Britt Music & Arts Festival Live Concert: Lin Conducts Brahms & Korngold

ohannes Brahms overcomes 20 years of self-doubt and creative struggle in his First Symphony, a profoundly personal work of soaring lyricism that ends in a blaze of orchestral glory. Evoking the gilded glamor of classic Hollywood film scores, Eric Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto also teems with melodies of heartwarming romance — making it a perfect showcase for soloist William Hagen’s “passionate, poignantly phrased performance” (Florida Times-Union) — while Ke-Chia Chen’s A Lasting Bond reimagines a pair of Saisiyat folk songs to pay tribute to the enduring resilience of Taiwan’s indigenous people.