Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The adventure takes shape!




Our J-Term 2014 adventure into some of the worlds greatest musical centers in history is really taking shape.  I for one have been very hard at work securing our concerts.  We have some incredibly serious things to see like Tosca and Boris Gudunov!  Some of the best orchestras in the world like the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics.  A ballet, chamber music, modern works and much MUCH more.  We will be going to museums, the birth homes of composers, great conservatories, great concert halls.  We will be seeing great music in the places that saw their first performances.  There is no better context than this!

Part of the course is that each participant is required to post 11 entries to this blog.  Some of them will be serious reflections on concerts, some will be a simple account of our adventures and others will be silly stories of our adventures along the way.

There will be ample opportunity for random and silly stories.  We will be riding planes, Eurail trains and auto-busses.  Relying on the terrific public transport systems of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic!  We are staying in Hostels and will be there in winter!  It is a going to be a FANTASTIC journey!  I will encourage and post many pictures!!!!  

The point of the of the entire trip is of course learning about all the AMAZING music we will be experiencing first hand!  So I thought I would kick off the blog with a run down of where we will be and what we will be seeing!  I hope you enjoy following the classes exploits.  Our last trip generated almost ten thousand hits!  Here is hoping we are so interesting, we shatter that mark.  This is going to be a wonderful and wild ride!

Our Concerts!


Leipzig

January 14
The Harlem Gospel Singers, I know!!!!  Go to Leipzig Gewandhaus so see them?  Cool!

Berlin

January 16
The Bennewitz Sting Quartet
             Dvorak - Quartet, Op 51
             Schulhoff – Funf Stucke
             Horinka – Songs of Immigrants

January 17
Mozart, The Magic Flute – Berlin Staatsoper

January 18
Tchaikowski, Onegin – Berlin Staatsballet

January 19
Berlin Philharmonic – Zubin Metha conductor
Crumb – Ancient Voices of Children, Marlis Petersen, soprano
Bruckner – 8th Symphony

Prague

January 21
Puccini - Tosca - Czech State Opera

January 22
Prague Symphony, Jac van Steen, conductor, Pauline Oostenrijk, Oboe
Zemlinski - Sinfonietta
Martinu - Oboe Concerto
Dvorak - Water Goblin, Noon Witch and Wild Dove

January 23
Czech Chamber music at the Prague Castle
J.S. Bach – Invention
Eccles – Sonata for viola and piano
Mozart - Turkish March
Haydn – Serenade
Chopin – Piece for piano solo
Chopin – Piece for viola solo
Beethoven – Romance
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
Beethoven – Fur Elise
Smetana – Vltava from Ma Vlast
Dvořák – Humoresque
Dvořák – Romantic Pieces
Gluck – Pizzicato.
  
Salzburg

January 25
Vienna Philharmonic, Paavo Järvi, conductor, Joshua Bell, violin
Mozart – Symphony No. 33 in B-flat major, K. 319
Brahms – Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77
Strauss – Metamorphosen, Study for 23 Solo Strings, AV 142
Mozart – Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 “Haffner”

January 26
            Mozart- Credo Mass KV 257 in Thomaskirche

January 27
Camerata Salzburg
Mozart – Overture of ''La clemenza di Tito'' KV 621
Gluck – Aria of Tito No 6 ''Di quel sublime soglio''
Mozart – Aria of Tito No 6 ''Del più sublime soglio''
Mozart – Aria of Sesto No 9 ''Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio''
Gluck – Aria of Sesto No 10 ''Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio''
Gluck – Overture, Recitative and Aria of Vitellia No 14 ''Ah! taci barbaro'' - ''Come potesti, oh Dio''
Gluck – Aria of Tito No 16 ''Tu, infedel, non hai difese''
Gluck – Aria of Sesto No 18 ''Se mai senti spirarti sul volto''
Mozart – Recitative No 22 und Rondo No 23 of Vitellia ''Ecco il punto, Vitellia'' - ''Non             
               più di fiori vaghe catene''
Mozart – Symphony in D major KV 504 ''Prager''

January 28
Mozarteum Oechestra
            Clementi – Symphony No 1 in C major WoO 32
            Mozart – From ''La finta semplice'': Aria of Rosina No 15 ''Amoretti, che ascosi qui 
                            siete'' KV 51
            Mozart – From 'Mitridate re di Ponto'': Aria of Sifare No 13 ''Lungi da te, mio bene'' 
                           KV 87
            Mozart – From ''Ascanio in alba'' : Recitative and Aria of Silvia No. 22/23 ''Ferma, 
                            aspetta, ove vai?'' - ''Infelici affetti miei'' KV 111
            Mozart – From ''Il sogno di Scipione'': Aria of Costanza No 9 ''Biancheggia in mar lo 
                           scoglio'' KV 126
            Clementi – Symphony No 3 in G major ''The Great National''

Vienna

January 30
Vienna Radio – Symphonieorchester
Erin Gee – Mouthpiece XX
Prokofiev – Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 3 C-Dur op. 26
Brahms – Symphonie Nr. 4 e-moll op. 98

January 31
Mussorgsky - Boris Gudenov – Staatsoper Vienna

February 1
Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich
           Las Vegas Rhapsody