The Four Seasons

Did You Know?

Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is one of the earliest pieces of program music that has remained a fixture in the repertoire. (Source: The NPR Listener’s Encyclopedia of Classical Music) 

Composer/pianist Gabriela Lena Frank is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra and was named one of the 35 most significant women composers in history by The Washington Post in 2017. (Source: Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music)

Haydn’s Symphony No. 95 is one of 12 London Symphonies that he composed and which stand among the highest peaks of symphonic art. American musicologist Leonard Ratner called them “the culmination of a long period of growth in skill, fluency and fantasty.” (Source: The NPR Listener’s Encyclopedia of Classical Music) 

Because of his father, Franz, a principal horn player, Richard Strauss became a great champion of the horn. His first Horn Concerto showed the influence of Schumann and Mendelssohn and remains a staple of the modern horn repertoire. (Source: Classic FM)

Featured Performers

Tallie Brunfelt
Concertmaster

Violinist Tallie Brunfelt is excited to be performing her third season as Concertmaster of the Akron Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her commitments in Akron, Tallie serves as Assistant Concertmaster of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed recently with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Reading Symphony.

Based in New York City, Tallie maintains an active freelance career throughout the Northeastern United States. On Broadway, Tallie was most recently First Violinist/Violist for King Kong: Alive on Broadway. She has also enjoyed regular appearances in many other Broadway shows including Les Miserables, Something Rotten!, Carousel, Anastasia, Miss Saigon, Hello Dolly!, Mean Girls, and Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations. Tallie looks forward to performing again this winter in the Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular, starring the Radio City Rockettes.

An accomplished studio musician, Tallie can be heard on recent motion picture and television soundtracks including Gemini Man, Joker, The Goldfinch, The Greatest Showman, A Dog’s Purpose, Fosse/Verdon, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Her recording credits include the Le Boeuf Brothers’ jazz album In Praise of Shadows as the first violinist of the Myth String Quartet, and both Mi Alma Mexicana (Sony) and Travesio Carmesi (Columbia) as a member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Additionally, Tallie is proud to perform in the annual holiday release of Carols for a Cure, which benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Tallie has enjoyed performing in national and international tours throughout her career, most recently as Concertmaster of a U.S. tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Previous highlights include North American tours of Star Wars: In Concert. Tallie also performed with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas throughout the U.S. and Mexico, including appearances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts attended by President George W. Bush, the Latin Grammy Awards with Gloria Estefan and John Legend, and the Año de la Patria celebration in Mexico City commemorating Mexico’s 200th anniversary of its independence and the 100th anniversary of its revolution.

Originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, Tallie completed undergraduate and graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music where she studied with New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow in the Orchestral Performance Program.