``A Little Night Music'' will lead the program for the Oregon Mozart Players.Byline: The Register-Guard The Oregon Mozart Players Oregon Mozart Players is a professional chamber orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. The orchestra presents six concert sets in a typical season, in addition to numerous small ensemble performances and recitals by guest artists. will play the W.A. Mozart masterpiece `Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (`A Little Night Music') in two performances this weekend. The orchestral gem is being performed as part of the Eugene chamber orchestra's seasonlong commemoration of the composer's 250th birthday. It highlights a program that spotlights the orchestra's string section. `The strings of any orchestra are the core, and it's important to give them a program where they can focus on developing their sound and ensemble,' says the chamber orchestra's artistic director and conductor, Glen Cortese. Also to be performed are Leonard Bernstein's Serenade serenade [Ital. sera=evening], term used to designate several types of musical composition. Opera and song literature yield numerous examples of the serenade sung or played by a lover at night beneath his beloved's window; outstanding is (After Plato's Symposium) for violin violin, family of stringed musical instruments having wooden bodies whose backs and fronts are slightly convex, the fronts pierced by two f-hole-shaped resonance holes. and orchestra; and Richard Danielpour's `Apparitions.' `These works were picked for their contrasts and also for their birthday theme," Cortese says. `Richard Danielpour Richard Danielpour (born 28 January 1956 in New York) is an American composer. Biography Danielpour studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a DMA in composition in 1986. is 50 this season and is one of our most important American composers on the scene today. Mozart's birthday is obvious, and this is one of his best known and loved works. The Bernstein is a classic, I think one of his top three pieces, and is a great upbeat contrast to the more nocturnal nocturnal /noc·tur·nal/ (nok-tur´n'l) pertaining to, occurring at, or active at night. noc·tur·nal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or occurring in the night. 2. sounding `Apparitions.' '' The Serenade features violinist Fritz fritz n. Informal A condition in which something does not work properly: Our television is on the fritz. [Perhaps from German Fritz Gearhart, an associate professor at the University of Oregon's School of Music. As for the 1787 composition of `Eine kleine Nachtmusik The Serenade for strings in G major, K 525, also known as Eine kleine Nachtmusik ("A little night music" or less literally, "A little serenade"), is one of the most popular compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ,' it is not known why the piece was written or for whom. CONCERT PREVIEW Oregon Mozart Players Program: W.A. Mozart's ``Eine kleine Nachtmusik'' Where: Hult Center's Soreng Theatre, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street When: 8 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday Tickets: $20 to $28 through the Hult box office, 682-5000 Free pre-concert talk: Conductor Glen Cortese discusses the program at 7:15 p.m. Saturday and 1:45 p.m. Sunday in the Soreng Theatre lobby |
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