Dear Musicians and Music Lovers:
Join us next Monday evening for Community Music Mondays’ celebration of Mozart’s 255th birthday (he doesn’t look a day over 35)!
The Trinity Chamber Players will start the evening off with Mozart’s last string quartet in F Major, K 590…
Followed by his Flute Quartet in D Major K 285 with flutist (or is that flautist?) Mary Cherney, music teacher at PS/IS 89…
Followed by Ein Musikalischer Spass (A Musical Joke) by Mozart…
And, if we have time, we’ll sing one or two of Mozart’s canons at the end of the evening.
We’ll start a new format this Monday, playing from 6:30 Pm to 8:30 PM. Each week, the Trinity Chamber Players will spend the first 20 or 30 minutes rehearsing (gasp!) some of the thornier passages in the work to be read that night. The TCP will generally play only one full work and then we’ll invite our Community Musicians to join us. We’ll end at 8:30 PM to allow everybody to go home and get more beauty sleep – especially the Manhattan Youth staff members who have to close the Downtown Community Center at night.
Here’s a bit about the music for Monday:
The F Major quartet is the third in a set of three quartets written for the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, who was himself a cellist. It’s one of those pieces written near the end of Mozart’s life that is full of musical ideas that make us wonder what other great stuff Mozart would have written over the following years. We really wish he’d stuck around.
The D Major flute quartet was one of three written for flautist (flutist?) Ferdinand De Jean when Mozart was 21 or 22 years old. It’s a lively three-movement work with a middle movement that features plucked strings accompanying a beautiful aria played by the flute. You’ll love it!
Ein Musikalizcher Spass, written at about the same time, gives us our first peek of the evening at Mozart’s sense of humor. It is full of simplistic themes, wrong notes, and violations of compositional rules. Why Mozart wrote this is the subject of some debate, but he must have been having fun.
A canon is essentially a round, like Row, Row, Row Your Boat. If you stick around until the end of the evening, you will appreciate why most of Mozart’s canons were not published in his lifetime. They are contrapuntally exquisite and beautiful to hear except for the texts, which are – how do you say – really raunchy. You’re invited to sing along using only slightly bowdlerized English translations.
Bring your party hats, and let’s play!
Jim
Join us next Monday evening for Community Music Mondays’ celebration of Mozart’s 255th birthday (he doesn’t look a day over 35)!
The Trinity Chamber Players will start the evening off with Mozart’s last string quartet in F Major, K 590…
Followed by his Flute Quartet in D Major K 285 with flutist (or is that flautist?) Mary Cherney, music teacher at PS/IS 89…
Followed by Ein Musikalischer Spass (A Musical Joke) by Mozart…
And, if we have time, we’ll sing one or two of Mozart’s canons at the end of the evening.
We’ll start a new format this Monday, playing from 6:30 Pm to 8:30 PM. Each week, the Trinity Chamber Players will spend the first 20 or 30 minutes rehearsing (gasp!) some of the thornier passages in the work to be read that night. The TCP will generally play only one full work and then we’ll invite our Community Musicians to join us. We’ll end at 8:30 PM to allow everybody to go home and get more beauty sleep – especially the Manhattan Youth staff members who have to close the Downtown Community Center at night.
Here’s a bit about the music for Monday:
The F Major quartet is the third in a set of three quartets written for the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, who was himself a cellist. It’s one of those pieces written near the end of Mozart’s life that is full of musical ideas that make us wonder what other great stuff Mozart would have written over the following years. We really wish he’d stuck around.
The D Major flute quartet was one of three written for flautist (flutist?) Ferdinand De Jean when Mozart was 21 or 22 years old. It’s a lively three-movement work with a middle movement that features plucked strings accompanying a beautiful aria played by the flute. You’ll love it!
Ein Musikalizcher Spass, written at about the same time, gives us our first peek of the evening at Mozart’s sense of humor. It is full of simplistic themes, wrong notes, and violations of compositional rules. Why Mozart wrote this is the subject of some debate, but he must have been having fun.
A canon is essentially a round, like Row, Row, Row Your Boat. If you stick around until the end of the evening, you will appreciate why most of Mozart’s canons were not published in his lifetime. They are contrapuntally exquisite and beautiful to hear except for the texts, which are – how do you say – really raunchy. You’re invited to sing along using only slightly bowdlerized English translations.
Bring your party hats, and let’s play!
Jim
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