Two large chamber works by Richard Strauss frame Adolphus Hailstork’s Arabesques, a sunny and virtuosic piece for flute and percussion, on this final CSO Sessions episode of season 1. The program opens with Strauss’ Metamorphosen, a work for string septet that embodies the complex emotions of the elderly composer during the final days of the Second World War. The Serenade that ends the episode is a youthful work for 13 wind instruments composed when he was just 17 years old. It shows the young Strauss clearly coming into his own as a composer as well as the influence of his Classical training and father, one of Germany’s finest horn players.

PROGRAM
STRAUSS Metamorphosen for String Septet (arr. Leopold)
HAILSTORK Arabesques
STRAUSS Serenade in E-flat Major, Op. 7

SPONSORS
Sponsorship support for CSO Sessions is generously provided by the Zell Family Foundation; an anonymous donor; Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund; the Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner Brown Digital Media Fund; JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of the DuPage Foundation; the Julian Family Foundation, in honor of Cristina Rocca; Cynthia M. Sargent; Megan and Steve Shebik; Betty W. Smykal; TAWANI Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; ITW, and PNC.