Johann Strauss:   Radetzky March

Richard Strauss:    Death and Transfiguration

Gustav Mahler:     Symphony No. 5

The rich and elegant musical heritage of Imperial Vienna comes to life in our own beautiful, colonial Milford Town Hall Grand Ballroom as the CHSO returns to one of its most memorable readings from the first decade – Richard Strauss’s (German not Austrian!) sublime tone poem on the transfiguration of the Human Soul – dedicated to a longtime friend of the CHSO.  Preluded by the charming and martial Radetzky March of Johann Strauss, the concert climaxes in what is sure to become one of the next greatest CHSO memorable nights – as the orchestra climbs to the pinnacle in a first-time performance of the supreme Viennese Romanticist Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony – considered to be one of THE Greatest works of the form.