As he gazed on rugged terrain off the island of Staffa off the coast of Scotland, Felix Mendelssohn was moved to jot down a melody that would become The Hebrides Overture. Also known as “Fingal’s Cave,” the evocative overture is a work that audiences love to hear. That trip in 1829 to the Scottish Highlands also inspired the beginning of Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony No. 3, though it took the German composer 13 years to complete the moody, romantic symphony. Conversely, Max Bruch would not visit Scotland until the year after the premiere of his Scottish Fantasy in 1881. Nevertheless, the German composer based the popular work on four Scottish folk tunes. Violinist Rolf Haas, concertmaster of the Phoenix Symphony, is soloist in the program led by Anthony Parnther, music director of the San Bernadino Symphony Orchestra and a frequent conductor of film and TV scores.