The Great Subscription Series: Mahler & Mike Svoboda
10.09.2011
The First Concert
In our opening concert, Maestro Dennis Russell Davies has brilliantly juxtaposed „Minimal Music at its best“ with Gustav Mahler’s music awash with sound to create an exciting evening of music. This unexpected combination of music may come as another complete surprise for our Linzer’ subscribers in their opening night concert at the Brucknerhaus on October 13th. This is especially the case since Dennis Russell Davies changed the program at the last minute. The great contrast in music, however, only exists when you first glance at the program. Mahler’s „Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor“ was actually dubbed „a symphony of realities“ by Alma Schindler, who became Mahler’s wife in 1902, one year after the composition of this work. Since this Symphony contains neither literary illusions nor hidden meanings, in a sense, it can be considered pure music, meaning that it was composed without involving any other elements – only the musical construction. Instead, Mahler, who was the Viennese Opera Director to the Emperor’s Court, created such a magical Adagietto, that to this day it has no equal. While listening to this delicate, sensitve and peaceful music, the listener will have a revelation .... and be able to lose himself/herself in the music, even without the help of Luchino Visconti’s junky score for „Death in Venice.“
Sharing the spotlight with Maestro Davies is our trombone virtuoso, Mike Svoboda. Born in 1960 in Guam, an island in the South Pacific, Mike has performed over thirty successful world premieres in the past twenty years of his highly successful international career. Michael Nyman’s „Trombone Concerto“ allows our soloist to show very effectively that contemporary music joyously flirts with Pop, Rock, and even Jazz.
Even though John Adams’ Fanfare: „Short Ride in a Fast Machine“ is only four minutes long, it does not disappoint musically. Despite its short length, the fanfare is a sophisticated and complicated minimalistic work. It is subtle, original, and filled with exuberance and unrestrained passages. As the 64 year old Adams remarked so succinctly: „You know how it is when someone asks you to ride in a terrific sports car, and then you wish you hadn’t?“ This program will certainly give us much to discuss in our first scheduled Probe-Studio!
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10.09.2011
The First ConcertIn our opening concert, Maestro Dennis Russell Davies has brilliantly juxtaposed „Minimal Music at its best“ with Gustav Mahler’s music awash with sound to create an exciting evening of music. This unexpected combination of music may come as another complete surprise for our Linzer’ subscribers in their opening night concert at the Brucknerhaus on October 13th. This is especially the case since Dennis Russell Davies changed the program at the last minute. The great contrast in music, however, only exists when you first glance at the program. Mahler’s „Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor“ was actually dubbed „a symphony of realities“ by Alma Schindler, who became Mahler’s wife in 1902, one year after the composition of this work. Since this Symphony contains neither literary illusions nor hidden meanings, in a sense, it can be considered pure music, meaning that it was composed without involving any other elements – only the musical construction. Instead, Mahler, who was the Viennese Opera Director to the Emperor’s Court, created such a magical Adagietto, that to this day it has no equal. While listening to this delicate, sensitve and peaceful music, the listener will have a revelation .... and be able to lose himself/herself in the music, even without the help of Luchino Visconti’s junky score for „Death in Venice.“
Sharing the spotlight with Maestro Davies is our trombone virtuoso, Mike Svoboda. Born in 1960 in Guam, an island in the South Pacific, Mike has performed over thirty successful world premieres in the past twenty years of his highly successful international career. Michael Nyman’s „Trombone Concerto“ allows our soloist to show very effectively that contemporary music joyously flirts with Pop, Rock, and even Jazz.
Even though John Adams’ Fanfare: „Short Ride in a Fast Machine“ is only four minutes long, it does not disappoint musically. Despite its short length, the fanfare is a sophisticated and complicated minimalistic work. It is subtle, original, and filled with exuberance and unrestrained passages. As the 64 year old Adams remarked so succinctly: „You know how it is when someone asks you to ride in a terrific sports car, and then you wish you hadn’t?“ This program will certainly give us much to discuss in our first scheduled Probe-Studio!
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