Symphony 9

In the culminating program of the Naples Philharmonic’s concentrated Beethoven Festival, Artistic and Music Director Alexander Shelley leads the orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic Chorus and a quartet of vocalists in what many consider one of the most supreme achievements in music history. The program begins with Jake Runestad’s A Silence Haunts Me, a touching choral work dramatizing Beethoven’s struggle with deafness, setting the stage for his final symphony — a monumental masterpiece that shattered the traditional symphonic form as the first to feature soloists and chorus.