Never was a symphony more appropriately named than Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique, first performed in 1830. Nothing like it had ever been heard before – a 50-minute work in five movements with a storyline about a drug-induced fantasy world in which the composer used the orchestra as a giant virtuoso instrument to create a spectacular array of sounds, textures and effects. The amazing, award-winning young Taiwanese-American violinist Richard Lin stars in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, a perennial favorite among both soloists and audiences, music of effortless grace, polish and an amiable, genteel mood. Felix Chen, one of Taiwan’s most venerated conductors, opens his program with a masterful but little-known overture by a very well-known composer, Schumann’s Overture to Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), an evocation in sound of a traumatic story worthy of the ancient Greek dramatists.