Mozart & the Romantics at Dayton Masonic Center

Dates: (4/13/2014 )

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Dayton Masonic Center

525 Riverview Avenue
Dayton,OH OH 45401

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Tickets: $14.00 - $24.00

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It’s probably been played almost as many times as there have been weddings. Because it's usually used to accompany the newly married couple as they walk away from the altar and out of the church, it’s hard to imagine today that Mendelssohn wrote this piece as an overture for a play. Actually, he wrote it twice; the first time (Op. 21) was in 1826 as an overture for Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (the music played in this concert). Sixteen years later, knowing a good thing when he heard it, he made the romantic overture—with the musical sound effects of fairy feet and the braying of an ass—part of some incidental music he wrote for a later production of the play.

Baseball player Dizzy Dean used to say, “If you can do it, it ain’t braggin’.” And Richard Strauss could play a horn. His father, an accomplished principal horn for the Munich Court Orchestra, provided the motivation and the genes, and young Richard spent countless hours practicing and learning to play the instrument. He knew as well how to incorporate the horn effectively into his compositions. His Horn Concerto No. 1 is moderate in its harmony, but unabashed, vital, and recklessly extravagant in its melody. DPO Principal Horn Aaron Brant will perform the Strauss Horn Concerto.

Mozart composed his final and longest symphony, the Symphony No. 41 (dubbed “Jupiter” by an impresario of the era), less than three years before his death. His furious production of compositions during the summer of 1788 might lead one to believe that Mozart had some premonition of his pending fate; he wrote Symphonies No. 39 and 40, respectively, in the two months preceding his composition of No. 41. However, his haste did not result in waste. Nineteenth-century English music writer Sir George Grove, the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, wrote of Mozart’s Jupiter, "It is the greatest orchestral work of the world which preceded the French Revolution.”

Symphony Sundaes is a unique concert concept. Featuring an entirely different and more intimate feel, Symphony Sundaes concerts are a shorter, more manageable presentation of family-friendly classics with no intermission; instead there's a relaxed ice-cream social after the concert sponsored by Graeter's, where you can meet and greet DPO musicians. Concerts are performed in the elegant Scottish Rite Cathedral at the Dayton Masonic Center. Free parking, too!

Cast and Creative team for Mozart & the Romantics at Dayton Masonic Center

PATRICK REYNOLDS conductor
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
AARON BRANT horn

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