PRUSSIAN BLUES: Hindemith, Schubert, Wagner & Mahler
This Ring Cycle prelude is a part of the LA Opera's city-wide Ring Festival LA. Central to the program is Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll written between the composition of Parts II (Die Walkure) and III (Siegfried) of the Ring Cycle. The work was a birthday present for his wife Cosima on Christmas Eve after the birth of their son Siegfried. The program is balanced by Paul Hindemith's Wind Septet, a reaction against nationalism and Wagnerian Late Romantic excess. Franz Schubert's five part-songs provide riviting insights into the origins of Wagner's vocal writing and the roots of Wagnerian chromaticism. Although a convert to Catholicism, Gustav Mahler was one of the most deeply probing of Jewish composers indebted to the innovations of Wagner. Mahler's wrenching farewell to life, the Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony, in a revelatory arrangement for 20 strings by violinist Gidon Kremer, concludes the evening.
A company of 44 singers and instrumentalists, including the men of the Jacaranda Chamber singers, bring Jacaranda's 2009-10 season to a grand finish. Mark Alan Hilt conducts.
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Ring Cycle prelude to LA Opera's Ring Festival LA; Wagner Before & After
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 8:00 PM
First Pres Santa Monica
1220 Second Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone: (213) 483-0216
Website: www.jacarandamusic.org
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