Capital City Concerts presents A Feast of Suites on Sunday, November 20 at 3PM at Montpelier High School Smilie Auditorium.
Lou Kosma (former longtime member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) conducts a professional orchestra of extraordinary musicians from up and down the east coast in three orchestral suites by Holst, Telemann, and featuring Schoenberg's Suite in the Old Style, a distinctly tonal homage to J.S. Bach. The works are evocative of landscape with a strong sense of place, just in time for the annual celebration of Vermont's fall bounty this Thanksgiving season.
Schoenberg composed the Suite in G for String Orchestra in 1934 shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles upon fleeing Germany in the wake of the growing Nazi regime. "Too many people think of Schoenberg as a composer of "run-for-the exits" music, " said Capital City Concerts Artistic Director Karen Kevra. "The father of atonality also wrote accessible, beautiful, and engaging music. His “Suite in the Old Style” invites you in with its rich harmonies and evocative sense of landscape. This is a major orchestral work --much more than a novelty. It is a masterpiece and a salute to Schoenberg's new life in America."
Kevra, a Grammy-nominated flutist will be the soloist in Telemann's Suite in A minor for flute and string orchestra, widely considered to be the greatest flute suite of the Baroque period. “I adore this piece because it is so inventive. It has dazzling virtuoso movements, an overtly expressive and gorgeous Italian style aria, swashbuckling dances for the strings, plus it opens with a grand overture in the French Baroque style.”
The concert will open with Gustav Holst's Green Brook Suite, an inviting and picturesque work from the composer who is best know for his gigantic suite “The Planets."
This concert is sponsored in part by Capital Copy, Vermont State Employees Credit Union, and Maple Capital Management, with media sponsorship from VPR.
To learn more about the musicians, venues, programs, and to charge tickets ($15-$25) go towww.capitalcityconcerts.org. Tickets may also be purchased (cash or check only) in person at Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, and at the door.
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