“After a year of screeching cacophony, my father mercifully gave me a cello to try.”

Mark your calendars to hear cellist Jake Charkey and eclectic performance artist Sam Amidon.

The moniker “Mercury” is not by Haydn and wasn’t assigned to the symphony until perhaps 100 years later. It bears no meaningful relationship to the piece, but the name does relate well to the Herschel. Don’t you think?

Discovery in classical music? Across three centuries?