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"BRIGHT MOZART"
CONCERT
From staff reports
“Bright Mozart” will feature five of the Brightmusic musicians plus guest artist and composer Craig Goodman, Professor of Chamber Music at the National Conservatory of Music of Strasbourg, France.
This concert will be performed on Monday evening, January 21, at 7:30 pm at All Souls' Episcopal Church, Northwest 63rd and Pennsylvania, and on Tuesday evening, January 22, at 7:30 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Northwest 7th Street and Robinson.
The concert will feature three works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- two of his quartets for flute and strings, and a Fantasy of music from his last opera, "The Magic Flute," arranged for chamber ensemble -- as well as a sonata by French Romantic composer César Franck and the world premiere of a new chamber music work, commissioned by Brightmusic, and composed by our guest Craig Goodman, Professor of Chamber Music at the National Conservatory in Strasbourg, France, who is also a flutist. The works on the program are: (1) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Flute Quartet No. 3 in C Major, K.285; (2) Franck’s Sonata in A Major for Flute and Piano; (3) Mr. Goodwin’s new work, “Off the Beaten Bath;” (4) Mozart’s “Magic Flute Fantasy,” arranged by the contemporary American arranger/composer Michael Webster; and (5) Mozart’s Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major, K.285.
Guest artist and composer Craig Goodman is a concert flutist, composer and Professor of Chamber Music and Coordinator of the Chamber Music Department at the National Conservatory in Strasbourg, France. Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Thy Chamber Music Festival in Denmark; Artistic Director of Rencontres Musicales de Genève in Switzerland. BA and MM, Yale University; post-graduate studies in analysis and composition, École Normale Supérieure de Paris. For more information about Mr. Goodman, visit www.flutist.com.
extracts portions of the Overture, the Finale and seven arias and choruses, "ingeniously stitched together by other fragments of this ever-popular opera;" and Mozart's Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major, K.285 (flute, violin, viola and cello) has a first movement of this quartet is “melodious;” the second movement, written in B minor (a “rare key in Mozart”) is “slow” and “eloquent;” and the third movement features a “kittenish finish” [Julian Rushton].
Admission is $10 per person (students with ID are free). A reception with the musicians follows each performance. Information about Rest-of-the-Season Memberships is available on the website, www.brightmusic.org.
For more information, press may contact David Johnson at 216-5595.
"BRIGHT MOZART"
CONCERT
From staff reports
“Bright Mozart” will feature five of the Brightmusic musicians plus guest artist and composer Craig Goodman, Professor of Chamber Music at the National Conservatory of Music of Strasbourg, France.
This concert will be performed on Monday evening, January 21, at 7:30 pm at All Souls' Episcopal Church, Northwest 63rd and Pennsylvania, and on Tuesday evening, January 22, at 7:30 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Northwest 7th Street and Robinson.
The concert will feature three works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- two of his quartets for flute and strings, and a Fantasy of music from his last opera, "The Magic Flute," arranged for chamber ensemble -- as well as a sonata by French Romantic composer César Franck and the world premiere of a new chamber music work, commissioned by Brightmusic, and composed by our guest Craig Goodman, Professor of Chamber Music at the National Conservatory in Strasbourg, France, who is also a flutist. The works on the program are: (1) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Flute Quartet No. 3 in C Major, K.285; (2) Franck’s Sonata in A Major for Flute and Piano; (3) Mr. Goodwin’s new work, “Off the Beaten Bath;” (4) Mozart’s “Magic Flute Fantasy,” arranged by the contemporary American arranger/composer Michael Webster; and (5) Mozart’s Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major, K.285.
Five Brightmusic musicians will appear with Mr. Goodman on this concert: Dr. Gregory Lee, (violin), associate professor of violin at the University of Oklahoma, and Concertmaster of the OKC Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Neumann (viola), associate professor of viola, university of Oklahoma and violist with the OKC Philharmonic Orchestra. Dr. Jonathan Ruck (cello), assistant professor of cello at the University of Oklahoma and principal cellist with the OKC Philharmonic Orchestra, Chad Burrow (clarinet), assistant professor of clarinet, University of Michigan, clarinetist in the clarinet-piano ensemble Duo Clarion and violin-clarinet-piano ensemble Trio Solari, and co-artistic director of Brightmusic, and Amy I-Lin Cheng (piano). concert pianist; Lecturer of Piano at the University of Michigan; faculty member at the Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts. Amy is the pianist in the clarinet-piano ensemble Duo Clarion and the violin-clarinet-piano ensemble Trio Solari, and co-artistic director of Brightnusic.
The program includes Mozart's Flute Quartet No. 3 in C Major, K.285b (flute, violin, viola and cello), described in the press release as a "melodious, two-movement quartet in which the flute plays the primary role. Mozart adapted the second movement from the sixth movement of his Serenade No. 10 for Winds, K.361/370a; César Franck's Sonata in A Major for Flute and Piano -- Franck "helped re-focus French music from opera to orchestral and chamber music, as well as music for the keyboard;" Craig Goodman's “Off the Beaten Path” – World Premiere (violin, cello, clarinet and piano is a lyrical single-movement composition with provacative and amusing conversational fragments; Mozart's “Magic Flute Fantasy,” arr. Michael Webster,
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