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SUMMARY:Festival of Strings
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 17\, 2020 | 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.\nSunday\, October 18\, 2020 | 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.\nScott Speck\, conductor \nProgram:\nWolfgang Mozart | Divertimento in D major (16 minutes)\nstrings\nGeorge Walker | Lyric for Strings (6 minutes)\nstrings\nSamuel Barber | Adagio for Strings (8 minutes)\nstrings\nEdvard Grieg | Holberg Suite (20 minutes)\nstrings \nTickets on sale September 10\, 2020. \nWe open our season with an all-strings program headlined by American composer Samuel Barber’s beloved Adagio for Strings. \n“As we play together again for the first time\, our October concert expresses a mixture of emotions\,” Music Director Scott Speck says. “Of course we are overjoyed to be back together; and the concert begins and ends with pieces that are the very definition of boundless joy: Mozart’s Divertimento in D and the Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg. \n“To these we add a musical depiction of the collective sorrow we have all experienced this year: Barber’s Adagio\, and George Walker’s Lyric for Strings\,” Scott explains. “Taken together\, these pieces offer the full emotional range so characteristic of a performance of the Mobile Symphony.” \nAdagio for Strings is the best know work by American composer Samuel Barber and one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music in the world. It was arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of Barber’s String Quartet\, Op. 11. Often associated with sorrow and frequently described as the one work that rarely leaves a dry eye in the house\, it is nonetheless a true classical music hit. It has been used in many movies and television shows\, most notably Platoon\, The Elephant Man\, Le Norte and Lorenzo’s Oil. \nJust as Copeland’s Fanfare for the Common Man is America’s anthem for triumphant occasions\, Adagio for Strings is our soundtrack for mourning. It was broadcast over radio at the announcement of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death and broadcast on television at the announcement of John F. Kennedy’s death. The BBC Symphony Orchestra added it to the usually joyous “Last Night of the Proms” broadcast to commemorate September 11. Most recently\, it was played at the digital European Concert by the Berlin Philharmonic on May 1\, 2020\, for the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. \nThe concert also features American composer George Walker’s Lyric for Strings. Walker\, who died in 2018 at age 96\, was an American composer\, pianist and organist\, and was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Like Adagio for Strings\, Walker’s Lyric for Strings started life as a string quartet – his String Quartet No. 1\, composed in 1946. Over the next seven decades\, this string orchestra arrangement of the second movement became one of the most frequently performed orchestral works by a living American composer. \nClick here for Concert Safety Rules: https://mobilesymphony.org/news/concertsafetyrules \nSponsored By:\n\nLaura Lee Pattillo Norquist Charitable Foundation
URL:https://mobilesymphony.org/event/festival-of-strings
LOCATION:Saenger Theatre\, 6 South Joachim Street\, Mobile\, AL\, 36602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics
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