The Beethoven and Beethoven-inspired concert begins with his Egmont Overture, the overture to a play of the same name in which he wrote several incidental music pieces. This powerful and dramatic overture, with its political overtones, became the unofficial anthem of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Next up is the world premiere of modern composer Kendra D’Ercole and her piece that was inspired by Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament regarding his despair over his increasing deafness. Closing out the concert is Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, written for piano, solo voices, chorus, and orchestra.