Students in grades 6 and above are invited to take a field trip with me to an outdoor classical music concert at Chamber Music at the Barn on Thursday, June 26th. The concert begins at 8:00; tickets for school-age students are $6. Here are some notes about the program from the CMATB website:
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| The String Quartet in C Major,”Dissonant” on account of its unusual slow introduction, is perhaps the most famous of his quartets. It is the last in the set of six quartets composed between 1782-1785 that Mozart dedicated to Joseph Haydn. According to the catalog of works Mozart began early the preceding year, the quartet was completed on January 14, 1785. This Mozart String Quartet is arguably Mozart’s finest quartet writing, and certainly one of the most beloved pieces in the entire chamber music repertoire.Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time For clarinet, violin, cello and pianoFrench composer Olivier Messiaen had been captured by the German army during World War II and was being held as a prisoner of war. This Quartet was premiered in Stalag VIII-A in Görlitz, Germany (currently Zgorzelec, Poland) on January 15, 1941, allegedly to an audience of 5,000 fellow prisoners of war and prison guards, though there is reason to suspect that the audience may in fact have been much smaller. Messiaen later recalled the occasion: “Never was I listened to with such rapt attention and comprehension.” Messiaen wrote in the preface to the score that the work was inspired by text from the tenth chapter of the Book of Revelation. |
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I will be the “chauffer” for our field trip, so please let me know as soon as possible if you plan to attend so I can make the appropriate arrangements.
Nicole (250-1725)
