POSTPONED: NEC Symphonic Winds + William Drury: Bach, Dove, Apon, Krommer
Tonight the NEC Symphonic Winds, conducted by William Drury and Jackie Hu '24 MM, performs Jonathan Dove's Figures in the Garden and works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Krommer, and Saskia Apon.
This is an in-person event with a public live stream: https://necmusic.edu/live
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Christopher Mowett) | Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048
Allegro moderato
Adagio
AllegroArtists- William Drury, conductor
Jonathan Dove | Figures in the Garden (1991)
Dancing in the Dark
Susanna in the Rain
A Conversation
Barbarina Alone
The Countess Interrupts a Quarrel
Voices in the Garden
Nocturne: Figaro and SusannaProgram note
For their 1991 Mozart bicentenary celebrations, Glyndebourne commissioned five composers to write wind serenades. Each serenade was to be musically connected in some way with one of Mozart’s operas, and to be played outdoors before the performance of the opera. I was asked to compose a piece to precede The Marriage of Figaro. Although Mozart’s comic masterpiece needs no introduction, musically or otherwise, I was attracted by the aptness of playing a serenade in the garden before performances of an opera whose last act is set in a garden, and which itself includes a number of serenades: Voi che sapete, Deh vieni, non tardar, and Susanna and the countess’ letter-writing duet Canzonetta sull‘aria. I had the idea that with all the performances of The Marriage of Figaro that had taken place at Glyndebourne, sounds from the opera had in some way impregnated the garden: snatches of recitative, musical figures, instrumental colours. I didn’t want to overwork Mozart’s tunes – it would be disastrous if the audience were tired of them before the opera had even begun – but each movement of Figures in the Garden is developed from a musical idea in the opera. Here and there an alternative scenario emerges: Susanna sings her aria in the rain (because it’s an English garden), and Figaro and Susanna finally enjoy a moment of shared tranquillity that is denied them in the opera.
- Jonathan DoveArtists- Jackie Hu '24 MM, conductor
Saskia Apon | Quartet for Trombones
Eerste deel
Deel tweeArtists- Becca Bertekap, trombone
- Devin Drinan, trombone
- Jason Sato, trombone
- Shin Tanaka, bass trombone
Franz Krommer | Octet-Partita, op. 69
Allegro
Andante cantabile
Menuetto
RondoArtists- William Drury, conductor
NEC Symphonic Winds
Oboe
Rebecca Mack
Victoria Solis Alvarado
Clarinet
Evan Chu
Yi-Ting Ma
Bassoon
Daniel Arakaki
Wilson Lu
Yerin Choi
Zilong Huang
French horn
Elijah Barclift
Xiaoran Xu
Trumpet
Maxwell DeForest
Sebastián Haros
Matthew Mihalko
Alexandra Richmond
Trombone
Becca Bertekap
Devin Drinin
Allie Klaire Ledbetter
Bass Trombone
Jason Sato
Tuba
Hayden Silvester
Wind Ensemble Graduate Assistants
Weizhe Bai
Rachel Brake