Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 129, 2009
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA boston" James Levine, Music Director symphony ORCHESTRA Bernard Haitink, Conductor Emeritus JAMES LEV1NE Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Laureate Music Director « 129th Season, 2009-2010 w CHAMBER TEA VI Friday, April 23, at 2:30 COMMUNITY CONCERT IX Sunday, April 25, at 3, at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, South End, Boston COMMUNITY CONCERT X Sunday, May 2, at 3, at New Life Community Church, Framingham The free Community Concerts are made possible by a generous grant from The Lowell Institute. CATHERINE FRENCH, violin (1st violin in Strauss) IKUKO MIZUNO, violin (1st violin in Brahms) KAZUKO MATSUSAKA, viola (1st viola in Strauss) EDWARD GAZOULEAS, viola (1st viola in Brahms) BLAISE DEJARDIN, cello (1st cello in Strauss) MIHAIL JOJATU, cello (1st cello in Brahms) STRAUSS String Sextet from the opera Capriccio BRAHMS String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat, Opus 18 Allegro ma non troppo Andante, ma moderato Scherzo: Allegro molto; Trio: Animato Rondo: Poco Allegretto e grazioso Weeks 24/25 Richard Strauss (1864-1949) String Sextet from the opera Capriccio Strauss completed Capriccio, the last of his fifteen operas, on August 8, 1941, and the first performance took place in Munich on October 28, 1942. Clemens Krauss, who had also written the libretto, was the conductor, and the role of Countess Madeleine, the main character, was taken by Krauss' s wife, the soprano Viorica Ursuleac. The year 1941 found Strauss and his own wife in poor health, depressed by the war, worried about prospects for their Jewish daughter-in-law and half- Jewish grandson, and dismayed by the ever more chilly treatment the composer was getting at the hands of the German government (Strauss was not a Nazi, but he was not an outspoken opponent either, and he despised the Nazis no more than any other political party).
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