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Schubert in Vienna
Presented by California Symphony
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- Location: Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, California 94596 - Introduction: This lively, genre-blending program moves from Mozart's classical elegance to Gulda's jazz-inspired cello concerto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Excerpts from Don Giovanni
Friedrich Gulda — Cello Concerto
Franz Schubert — Symphony No. 9 (The Great)
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS CONCERT
- California Symphony performs excerpts from Mozart’s brilliantly witty and melody-filled Don Giovanni in an arrangement for the Harmoniemusik of Mozart’s day, when bands of wind players would roam the streets of Vienna to promote coming attractions.
- Friedrich Gulda’s Cello Concerto, performed by Bay Area native Nathan Chan, is a fusion of jazz, rock, and those wind sounds we heard in the Mozart. This exhilarating mishmash promises to bring the house down.
- Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, aptly known as The Great is a grand and majestic journey through soaring melodies and lively folk rhythms, almost all of which are first introduced by the woodwind and brass sections.
approx. 1 hour 55 minutes, with one 20-minute intermission
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