Concert Quick Guide

CONCERT QUICK GUIDE THE UNFINISHED Presented in conjunction with e Met Breuer’s exhibition “Unnished: oughts Left Visible” Carnegie Hall |Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage Friday, May 13, 2016 at 7:30 PM | Leon Botstein, conductor Arnold Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 2 (20 min) Movements On Stage Adagio (slow) 9 min 2 utes Con fuoco ( ) with re 11 min 1 piccolo 2 oboes Born September 13, 1874, in Vienna 1 English horn Died July 13, 1951, in Los Angeles, at age 76 2 clarinets 2 bassoons First composed in August 1906, at age 31; revisited 2 French horns and revised in 1911, December 1916, and 2 trumpets August–October 1939 12 violins Premiered on December 14, 1940, in NYC by The 4 violas New Friends of Music Orchestra conducted by 4 cellos Fritz Stiedry 3 double basses Schoenberg first began work on this piece after feeling he had “established [his] style” following the completion of his first Chamber Symphony. He completed the first movement and sketched out the beginning of the second, but found his compositional development was moving too fast, and abandoned the work. At the prospect of a performance of the piece by his friend, the conductor Fritz Stiedry, Schoenberg in 1939 recomposed the ending of the opening Adagio and concluded the fast Con fuoco by recalling material from the first movement. Panel Discussion (20 min) Andrea Bayer, Jane Wrightsman Curator, Department of European Paintings, The Met Elaine Sisman, Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music, Columbia University Sheena Wagsta, Leonard A. Lauder Charman, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Met Leon Botstein, Music Director, The Orchestra Now Intermission 20 minutes Share a selfie! @TheOrchNow #TheOrchNow -over- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Great Mass in C minor (59 min) Emily Brisan, soprano On Stage Cassandra Zoe Velasco, mezzo-soprano 1 ute Brian Anderson, tenor 2 oboes Christopher Burchett, baritone Bard Festival Chorale 2 bassoons 2 French horns 2 trumpets e text and translation for this piece can be found in your Playbill. 3 trombones Movements timpani 1 organ Kyrie (8 min) Gloria in excelsis ( ) 12 violins 2 min 4 violas Laudamus te (5 min) Gratias (1 min) 4 cellos Domine (3 min) 3 double basses Qui tollis (6 min) chorus Quoniam (4 min) 4 vocal soloists Jesu Christe - Cum Sancto Spiritu (5 min) Credo in unum Deum (4 min) Et incarnatus est (10 min) Sanctus—Osanna (5 min) Benedictus (6 min) Born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg Died December 5, 1791, in Vienna, at age 35 Written in July 1782, in Vienna, and October 1783, in Salzburg, in Mozart’s mid-20s Premiered on October 26, 1783, at the Church of St. Peter’s Abbey in Salzburg This mass was a labor of love, written to fulfill a private vow to celebrate his recent marriage to Constanze Weber and to effect a reconciliation with his father, Leopold Mozart, who had opposed the marriage. Part of the reason Mozart left the work unfinished may have to do with its very scope, which exceeded both in length and opulence then-fashionable norms for church music in Austria. When the mass was first performed in Salzburg in October, 1783, Mozart probably inserted movements from earlier works to make up a full liturgy. All timings are approximate THEORCHESTRANOW.ORG.

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