Winter 2020 virtual concert series
Watch our students continue to create and share musical performances from solo to full orchestra in spite of the distance and the pandemic. We will highlight a few of our youngest students playing Suzuki standards and various international folk songs. Our Intermezzo String Orchestra will celebrate the season with A little night music - a holiday mashup of themes from famous composers. Our Youth Philharmonic and Youth Symphony Orchestra will regale us with more classical compositions like the New World Symphony, 4th Movement, Antonín Dvořák and Symphonie Fantastique, 4th Movement, Berlioz. And our Galistea Quartet will share an intimate recording of the first movement of Philip Glass' String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima."
This is a special celebration of our students' tenacity and accomplishments as we move into winter and 2020 draws to a close.
This is a special celebration of our students' tenacity and accomplishments as we move into winter and 2020 draws to a close.
WINTER 2020 VIRTUAL CONCERT PROGRAM
Highlights from the Elementary Strings solos and Prelude String Orchestra solos previously shared as a week of recitals featuring Suzuki standards and international Folk Songs.
A Little Winter Night Music by Various Composers and arranged by Kathryn Griesinger.
This piece is a holiday mashup from composers such a Mozart (A Little Night Music), Vivaldi (Winter from The Four Seasons), Holst (In the Bleak Midwinter), and themes from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite".
This piece is a holiday mashup from composers such a Mozart (A Little Night Music), Vivaldi (Winter from The Four Seasons), Holst (In the Bleak Midwinter), and themes from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite".
Glass String Quartet No. 3, composed in 1985, is based on music from the film, Mishima. In the movie the quartet score appears only during flashback scenes which were filmed in black and white, or monochrome. The breezy, buoyant, and carefree tapestries of the six movements call to mind nostalgic trappings of easier times unburdened by the eventual trials and tribulations that eventually fill a lifetime.
Siyahamba, Traditional South African Tune, arranged by Douglas Wagner
Siyahamba is adapted from a traditional song of the Zulu people, originating in the KwaZulu province of South Africa (now a major part of the Natal province). With strong ties to the apartheid movement, this tune, with its bold major sixth and seventh leaps, has a resolutely hopeful quality about it. The setting is straightforward, and uses persistent ostinatos in the bass line and percussion parts to provide an energetic background while propelling the theme forward. Several "call and response" patterns that are characteristic of South African music have also been incorporated into the music structure.
New World Symphony, 4th Movement, Antonín Dvořák, arranged by Richard Meyer
Dvořák's Ninth Symphony, "From the New World", was composed 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. Dvorak said, "I am convinced that the future music of this country must be founded on what are called Negro melodies. These can be the foundation of a serious and original school of composition, to be developed in the United States. These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America and your composers must turn to them." The main theme from the 2nd movement of the symphony sounds so much like a spiritual (although it is an original melody) that words were put to it 3 decades later. The 4th movement's main theme is powerful and resolute, bringing the work to a massive end.
Siyahamba is adapted from a traditional song of the Zulu people, originating in the KwaZulu province of South Africa (now a major part of the Natal province). With strong ties to the apartheid movement, this tune, with its bold major sixth and seventh leaps, has a resolutely hopeful quality about it. The setting is straightforward, and uses persistent ostinatos in the bass line and percussion parts to provide an energetic background while propelling the theme forward. Several "call and response" patterns that are characteristic of South African music have also been incorporated into the music structure.
New World Symphony, 4th Movement, Antonín Dvořák, arranged by Richard Meyer
Dvořák's Ninth Symphony, "From the New World", was composed 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. Dvorak said, "I am convinced that the future music of this country must be founded on what are called Negro melodies. These can be the foundation of a serious and original school of composition, to be developed in the United States. These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America and your composers must turn to them." The main theme from the 2nd movement of the symphony sounds so much like a spiritual (although it is an original melody) that words were put to it 3 decades later. The 4th movement's main theme is powerful and resolute, bringing the work to a massive end.
Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz (1803-1869)
Mvt IV March to the Scaffold
Mvt IV March to the Scaffold
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