Special Event: From Mozart to the Mountain – Bluegrass, Chorus, and Chamber Music

In this unique concert format, Erin Freeman, the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, Festival and Guests Artists, LEAD vocal soloists, and the Sing with Us! Chorus combines to showcase what makes Wintergreen Music so special. Mozart’s youthful Violin Sonata No. 18 opens the program, followed by movements from Scott Wheeler’s captivating Blue Ridge Suite for viola and piano and the world premiere choral arrangement of Susan Greenbaum’s Virginia, the Home of My Heart, complete with solo fiddle. The afternoon concludes with Mozart’s radiant Missa brevis in D Major, blending sacred grandeur with intimate beauty. Celebrate voices, instruments, and the mountain spirit in this truly special concert experience.

Concert Program:

Erin Freeman, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Violin Sonata No. 18 in G Major, K. 301

I. Allegro con spirito

II. Allegro

Scott Wheeler (b. 1952), Blue Ridge Suite for viola and piano

III. Shenandoah

IV. Fire on the Mountain

Susan Greenbaum Virginia, the Home of my Heart (world premiere chorale arrangement)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Missa brevis in D Major, K.194

I. Kyrie

II. Gloria

III. Credo

IV. Sanctus

V. Benedictus

VI. Agnus Dei