The Sound of Spring: Beethoven, Elgar, Ho

Orchestra Toronto Presents

Sunday, April 18, 2027 at 3PM Pre-Concert Chat at 2:15PM

The George Weston Recital Hall Meridian Arts Centre, 5040 Yonge St.

Michael Newnham, Conductor

Ho: Jubilation of Spring Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”

Lucia Ticho, Cello

Orchestra Toronto celebrates the vibrancy of nature and human emotion in this program. The concert opens with Alice Ho’s Jubilation of Spring, a bright and dynamic work that captures the energy, color, and renewal of the season through inventive orchestral textures. Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, featuring Cellist Lucia Ticho, follows, a deeply introspective and lyrical masterpiece that showcases Ticho’s expressive range while conveying themes of loss, reflection, and hope. The program concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”, a work that evokes the tranquility and rhythms of the countryside, celebrating humanity’s connection to the natural world with warmth, charm, and compositional ingenuity.