Musical Oddities
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Adventurous instrumentation characterizes our choice of music tonight. We begin with an arrangement by the flute ensemble, Vienna Flautists, of Mozart's "Piece for a Clockwork Organ"- a piece discredited by Mozart himself but nevertheless charming and entrenched in the classical music repertory. Composers do not always have the last say on the place history bestows upon their works!
In anticipation of their upcoming Carnegie Hall appearance, evening music presents percussionist Evelyn Glennie, along with Barry Wordsworth and the National Philharmonic Orchestra, in Scott Joplin's immortal "Maple Leaf Rag," and then the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Richard Strauss's Sonatina for Winds No. 1, "From an Invalid's Workshop." We also include the overture to Gaetano Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," as a teaser preview before the opera's unveiling at the Metropolitan Opera later this month.
Ralph Vaughan Williams shepherds us back into idyllic soundscapes with his Symphony No. 3, "A Pastoral Symphony" with soprano Amande Roocroft and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink. Next, contemporary composer Hugh Aitken instills nostalgia into his "Rameau Remembered" as flutist Scott Goff and the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz help conclude our evening's adventures.
» Percussionist Evelyn Glennie and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday, March 28th.
» Opening night of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" at the Metropolitan Opera, Friday, March 31st.
In anticipation of their upcoming Carnegie Hall appearance, evening music presents percussionist Evelyn Glennie, along with Barry Wordsworth and the National Philharmonic Orchestra, in Scott Joplin's immortal "Maple Leaf Rag," and then the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Richard Strauss's Sonatina for Winds No. 1, "From an Invalid's Workshop." We also include the overture to Gaetano Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," as a teaser preview before the opera's unveiling at the Metropolitan Opera later this month.
Ralph Vaughan Williams shepherds us back into idyllic soundscapes with his Symphony No. 3, "A Pastoral Symphony" with soprano Amande Roocroft and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink. Next, contemporary composer Hugh Aitken instills nostalgia into his "Rameau Remembered" as flutist Scott Goff and the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz help conclude our evening's adventures.
» Percussionist Evelyn Glennie and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday, March 28th.
» Opening night of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" at the Metropolitan Opera, Friday, March 31st.
