Digital Mozart.Classical music station KMZT-FM (105.1) continues its celebration of the 250th birthday of station namesake Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a first-ever free download of a specially recorded work by the famous composer. In partnership with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) is a 40-member American chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, praised by the music critic Jim Svejda as "America's finest chamber orchestra."[1]. , KMZT will offer Mozart'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 No. 6 in D major (Serenata Ser`e`na´ta n. 1. (Mus.) A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade. Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his pround fair. - Milton. Notturna) as a free download on kmzt.com for the next three months. The performance, conducted by Harry Bicket Harry Bicket (born 1961, Liverpool, England) is a British conductor, harpsichordist and organist. Bicket was educated at Radley College, Christ Church, Oxford, where he was organ scholar, and the Royal College of Music. , was recorded on Nov. 6 at Royce Hall Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Designed by the Los Angeles firm of Allison & Allison (James Edward Allison, 1870-1955, and his brother David Clark Allison, 1881-1962) in the Italian Romanesque Revival style and completed . "Downloading a free work of Mozart offers another way for us to connect to our listeners locally and around the world while adapting to technological innovations in the 21st century," said Michael Levine, the station's marketing director. The station was one of three nationwide that broadcast a Mozart birthday celebration from Salzburg, Austria, live in January. The month also featured heavy play of the composer's music. How the special programming fared in the ratings is not yet known. |
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