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Baroque & Beyond 1
Nov 15 at
7:30 p.m.
Halton Theater
Nov 17 at 8 p.m.
Davidson College
Alan Yamamoto, conducting
Scott Allen Jarrett, conducting
Oratorio Singers of Charlotte
BACH -
Nun ist das Heil
und die Kraft, BWV 50
MENDELSSOHN - Psalm
42, Op. 42 Wie
der Hirsch schreit
HANDEL Zadok the Priest
BRAHMS - Serenade No.
2, Op. 16
The Oratorio Singers
of Charlotte open the first concert of the new
“Baroque & Beyond” concert series with two choral
works of the German Protestant tradition – a brief
cantata by J.S. Bach (“Now is come salvation and
strength”) and Felix Mendelssohn’s serene setting of
Psalm 42 (As the doe pants for running streams”).
Mendelssohn composed much of this work while on his
honeymoon and was pleased with the result, writing
that it was “the best thing of its kind that I have
written.” The orchestra follows with Brahms’s
enchanting second Serenade, one of his earliest
orchestral works. Comprised of five short movements,
with no violins, the Serenade highlights the lithe
lyricism of the woodwinds.
Tickets: $18;
students $5
Halton Theater,
Central
Piedmont Community College (Nov 15)
Duke
Family Performance Center, Davidson College (Nov 17) |
Baroque & Beyond
2
Handel’s Saul
Feb 28 at
7:30 p.m.
Halton Theater
Scott Allen Jarrett, conducting
Oratorio Singers of Charlotte
Although not as well
known as Messiah,
Handel’s oratorio,
Saul, is
considered by many to be his greatest dramatic work
– in fact, one of the great dramatic works of the
ages. With a libretto by Charles Jennens (who wrote
the text for
Messiah),
Saul
chronicles the story of David and King Saul as told
in the Old Testament’s First Book of Samuel. But,
while faithful to the Biblical text, it really
assumes the form of Greek or Shakespearean tragedy
as it explores King Saul’s madness and eventual
death. Handel’s music, composed in 1738 (the year
after he suffered a serious stroke), is masterful in
its characterizations, and the orchestration –
beefed up with trombones, harp, and extra percussion
– is one of the largest in 18th-century
repertoire.
Tickets: $18;
students $5
Halton Theater,
Central
Piedmont Community College |
Baroque & Beyond
3
Apr 10 at
7:30 p.m.
Halton Theater
AND
Apr 11
at
7:30 p.m.
Matthews United Methodist Church
Alan Yamamoto, conducting
Lyle Steelman, trumpet
Richard Harris, trumpet
VIVALDI - Concerto for
Two Trumpets in C Major
COPLAND -
Appalachian Spring:
Suite
BACH - Brandenburg
Concerto No. 3 in G
STRAVINSKY -
Danses concertantes
(1942)
The final concert of
this series explores the Baroque in
Baroque & Beyond
with wonderful works by Baroque masters
Vivaldi and Bach: the Concerto for Two Trumpets,
featuring Charlotte Symphony trumpeters Lyle
Steelman and Richard Harris, and the third Brandenburg
Concerto, an elegant concerto grosso for strings.
The program goes “beyond” with two dance-inspired
pieces from the 1940s: Copland’s beloved
Appalachian Spring
Suite and Stravinsky’s
Danses concertantes,
created while the composer lived in Hollywood and
subsequently choreographed by George Balanchine.
Location
Apr 10 at
7:30 p.m.
Halton Theater
Apr 11
at
7:30 p.m.
Matthews United Methodist Church
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