Leader, Boris Pecker
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum

In 1764, Mozart and his father paid a visit to England. During that time Mozart's father was taken ill, and in his convalescence went to the village of Chelsea and stayed at the house of Dr. Randal in Lower Ebury Street. Owing to the enforced inactivity, Mozart, who was then eight years old, turned his hand to composition and wrote his first three symphonies, of which this one to be heard this afternoon was the first.