ZKE tow. zmNERvv.ti-s-f-3 yerture Na-agio .. ^-AIS, ^ r. 1 1, * 4 I SV17.1.4 It tONOC a, lo2162o0 lIC4 Ar ta Eis Ouvectutta-Igmcnt Your money grows like magic at the I I . 1 1 THE DIME SAVINGS BANK OF NEW YORK MEMBER FDIC MANHATTAN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN BENSONHURST FLATBUSH CONEY ISLAND KINGS PLAZA VALLEY STREAM MASSAPEQUA' HUNTINGTON STATION Brooklyn Academy of Music (q7b-,o0j21 Program Friday, October 29, 1976 (8:00pm)/Opera House Saturday, October 30, 1976 (8:00pm)/Opera House Sunday, October 31, 1976 (2:00pm)/Opera House Brooklyn Philharmonia Lukas Foss Music Advisor and Conductor Twenty-third Season 1976/77 Opening Concert of Major Subscription Series - Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Lukas Foss conductor Alicia de Larrocha piano and Jeanne Distell soprano The Brooklyn Philharmonia Choral Society Walter Klauss, director Program Music for Three Orchestras and Overture from Don Giovanni arranged by Lukas Foss Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major for piano and orchestra, K. 595 Allegro Larghetto Allegro HAVE Alicia de Larrocha, piano Intermission YOU Symphony No. 38 in D-major, K. 504, The Prague Allegro Andante BEEN Presto Laudate Dominum and Magnificat from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K. 339 THERE Jeanne Distell, soprano LATELY Brooklyn Philharmonia Choral Society This concert was made possible with public funds from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs Administration, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Program Notes ... ALICIA de LARROCHA :1 "...one of the exalted few." Music for Three Orchestras Christian Science Monitor and Overture to "Don Giovanni" Opera is full of instrumental passages which, because they are often bridges between vocal passages and do not resolve to a conclusion, cannot be readily excerpted for symphony concerts. Thus, the music from the masked ball scene at the end of the first act of Don Giovanni, in which three orchestras play simultaneously, leads directly into Zerlina's scream and the commotion which follows brings the first act to its brilliant close. Twelve years ago, while conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Lukas Foss thought of a way of combining this passage with the Overture Allegro, thus enabling concert audiences to en- L 7 joy the most ingenious tour de force in 18th century music: *irk 4,1 three little dance bands playing three familiar tunes simulta- neoulsy, each in its own tempo and rhythm. This extraor- dinarily modern feat required numerous rehearsals in Mozart's time and caused much concern and raised eyebrows. In Mr. Foss' arrangement the three orchestra music is follow- ed by the Overture, and then, just before the overture's con- cert conclusion, the three orchestra music is brought back for recapitulation, adding another surprise before the work con- cludes. Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat major LATEST RELEASE! for piano and orchestra, K. 595 RACHMANINOV: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 CS-6977' This is the last of Mozart's piano concertos and was MOSTLY MOZART VOLUME 2 completed CS-7008' on January 5, 1791, exactly eleven months prior to Mozart's MOSTLY MOZART death on December 5. Mozart performed the premiere on CS-6866 March 4 at a concert given by the clarinetist Joseph Baehr in Chopin: 24 PRELUDES; BERCEUSE CS-6952 Vienna. The following account of the circumstances surround- Ravel: PIANO CONCERTOS ing this concerto is from Mozart-His Character, His Work Faure: FANTAISIE CS-6878 (Oxford University Press, New York, 1945) by Dr. Alfred Albeniz: IBERIA; CANTOS DE Einstein. ESPANA; NAVARRA CSA-2235 "He played it on 4 March, 1791-but not in an 'academy' of Falla: NIGHTS IN THE GARDENS his own, which the Viennese public would no longer support, OF SPAIN Chopin: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 but at a concert of the clarinetist Joseph Baehr, in the concert CS-6733 hall of the Court-Caterer Jahn in the Himmelpfortgasse (Gate- Grieg: SONATA; NOCTURNE of-Heaven Road). Indeed, the work stands 'at the gate of Mendelssohn: VARIATIONS heaven', at the SERIEUSES; CAPRICCIO door of eternity. But when we term this Con- CS-6676 certo a work of farewell we do so not at all from sentimentality, TWENTIETH CENTURY SPANISH or from any misconception of this 'last concerto for clavier'. PIANO MUSIC CS-6677 In the eleven months that remained to him, Mozart wrote a SPANISH ENCORES great deal of various kinds of music; it was not in the Requiem CS-6953' that he said his last word, however, but in this work, which be- Falla: PIANO MUSIC longs to a species in which he also said his greatest. This is the CS-6881 Schumann: KREISLERIANA: musical counterpart to the confession he made in his letters to ALLEGRO; ROMANCE; NOVELETTE the effect that life had lost attraction for him. When he wrote CS-6749 this Concerto, he had two terrible years behind him, years of ALICIA DE LARROCHA PLAYS in BACH disappointment every sense, and 1790 had been even more CS-6748 terrible than 1789. He no longer rebelled against his fate, as Khachaturian: PIANO CONCERTO he had in the G minor Symphony, to which, not only in key, Franck: SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS CS-6818 but in other ways as well, this concerto is a sort of complement. Both these works, and, only these, begin with a prefatory measure that established the 'atmosphere' of the key, like the Eroica or a symphony by Bruckner. The mood of resignation zitiffri:71FULL. FF Y RANGE no longer expresses itself loudly or emphatically; every stirring #1 CLASSICAL LABEL (BILLBOARD) of energy is rejected or suppressed; and this last fact makes all IMPECCABLE IMPORTED RECORDS AND -TAPES the more uncanny the depths of sadness that are touched in the shadings and modulations of the harmony." - Symphony No. 38 in D-major, The place K. 504 ("The Prague") In the final years of Mozart's life Prague became for him a dream city. Feckless Vienna had grown tired of him and ignor- to come... ed him, and because of his wife's failing health and his own lagging finances, he could no longer travel to such distant capitals as Paris and London. But Prague was relatively nearby for low-cost, and Prague adored him.Figaro had literally set the city on its ear following its premiere there on December 10, 1786 and a group of local musicians decided to invite the composer to high-quality their city to witness his triumph. Mozart set out happily, taking with him a recently completed symphony that had not yet been performed. The premiere of the Symphony No. 38 family protection! took place in Prague on January 19, 1787 and received a thun- derous ovation. The audience would not go home until Mozart had improvised at the piano for more than half an hour and then performed a set of twelve variations on "Non piu andrai" from Figaro which he also improvised on request. While he was The in Prague Mozart received a commission for a new opera. That opera would be Don Giovanni and would receive its premiere Williamsburgh in Prague on October 29, 1787. 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Phone: 852-5257 Biographies ... time Lukas Foss, the Brooklyn advis- The best Philharmonia's music or and conductor, is also principal conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony and co-director of the Buffalo to buy a Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. Mr. Foss conducts the Evenings for New Music with the Buffalo group which are performed in New York as Ionpnmelocat well.