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 – 8^th 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