Don Freund's Summer Serenade (in November) w score - Jacobs String Academy

November performance of Don Freund's Summer Serenade: Concerto Grosso for Violin Ensemble, for Mimi Zweig and the 2024 Jacobs Summer String Academy.
Soloists
Catelijne Hunt, Ella Hightower,
Joyce Chen, Alice Zheng
Jacobs String Academy Violins
Mimi Zweig, Director
Leo Arakelyan, Raffi Arakelyan, Madeleine Cartledge, Sadie Evans, Quinn Hightower, Francis McLeod, Emma Neely, Kelton O’Connell, Arden Scifert, Alina Sukolina, Linden Travers, Erica Urheim, Vanessa Venesky, Vivien Venesky, Lyra Zhang, Vela Zhang
With
Mimi Zweig
Gwen Chan
Composer's program note:
Summer Serenade was composed for the world-class young artists of the Jacobs String Academy as a violin ensemble work for the final concert of the 2024 summer session. Inspired by the electric energy, musicality and virtuosity that Mimi Zweig has instilled in thousands of young string players, Summer Serenade is a concerto grosso for four violin soloists, and a violin orchestra divided into two groups of young and younger virtuosi. The work begins with an explosion (including a glissando sound cloud for the youngest group) before focusing on a soaring lyrical line and its throbbing accompaniment.