Monday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Case Scaglione, guest conductor

Stefan Jackiw, violin

Brannon Cho, cello

David Diamond Rounds

Prokofiev Symphony No. 1, "Classical"

Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello

MMSO welcomes Case Scaglione to the podium for the very first time. The former associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic arrives with two of the most compelling soloists of their generation. Violinist Stefan Jackiw, newly appointed faculty of the McDuffie Center and praised by the Boston Globe for playing of "uncommon musical substance," joins faculty cellist Brannon Cho, First Prize winner of the International Paulo Cello Competition, for Brahms' Double Concerto. The program opens with Diamond's Rounds, a jubilant American classic composed during World War II after a conductor simply asked him to "make me happy," and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, nicknamed the "Classical" — a piece so witty and light on its feet, it sounds like Mozart reborn with a mischievous grin.