Program Notes — BRAHMS ODYSSEY
October 9, 2024
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (1945) Compositions that teach the instruments of the orchestra make up a lively sub-genre of the literature, including beloved mainstays as Camille Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animalsand Serge Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra stands tall…