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Ukiah Symphony--"Cohen in Concert"
Special Announcement: Please purchase tickets for Sunday February 8th's concert at the Mendocino Bookstore in Ukiah (102 S. School Street, Ukiah). Saturday tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets and the Mendocino Book Company and the Mail Center, Etc. in Cloverdale (207A N. Cloverdale Blvd.).
The largest number of seasoned ticket holders are for Sunday concerts, and the small size of Near & Arnold's School of Performing Arts & Cultural Education theater does not allow for a large number of tickets to be sold online. Thank you for understanding.
-----------------------------------------------------------Press Release by Karen Rifkin:
Continuing to celebrate its 35th season, the Ukiah Symphony will be presenting its winter performance, "Cohen in Concert," with the works of composers Bizet, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky at Near and Arnold's School of Performing Arts and Education at 508 West Perkins Street on February 7th at 8:00 p.m. and February 8th at 3:00 p.m. The concert is sponsored by Richard and Jean Craig.
The concert begins with French composer Georges Bizet's Symphony in C, completed as a student assignment at the Paris Conservatoire in 1855 when he was 17 and hailed as a youthful masterpiece. Although it was never performed in his short lifetime, it has become one of his most well known orchestral works.
Written in the 19th century during the romantic era, it is considered to be more connected with the music of the classical period which pulls its inspiration from the intellectualism of the Greeks, and unlike his highly emotive Carmen, one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
Following is L.V. Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Op. 84, a set of incidental music piecesadding background and atmosphere to the actionwritten for a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe narrating the life of the Count of Egmont, a 16th century noble of Flanders who led a resistance against the Inquisition, was arrested and executed, but not in vain; his spirit lived on as the people of the Netherlands eventually turned out the invaders.
Powerful and expressive, passionate as Beethoven was, a classical composer who was also part of the transition to the romantic era, the work is similar to his Fifth Symphony, completed two years earlier.
Cellist Joel Cohen joins the symphony orchestra for the final piece, Variations on a Rococo Theme, Opus 33, by P. I. Tchaikovsky, a virtuosic work that has become a standard in cello/orchestral literature.
It is an original theme in the rococo style, a movement originating in Paris, intimate, light and elaborate, roughly from 1720 to 1770, as a reaction against the strict regulations of the previous Baroque period.
The piece consists of a basic theme with a set of variationsa change of rhythm or in meter, a change from a major to a minor or from quick to slowwritten in collaboration with the cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen and premiered in Moscow in 1877. It is virtuosic in style, technically difficult, requiring Cohen to play in registers almost as high as the violin.
Conductor Les Pfutzenreuter says of Joel Cohen, "He is a great musical performer with a high level of prowess and the ability to bring out the tender side of the music, developing a relationship with the music that allows him to draw out emotions intended by the composer and convey them to the audience.
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LocationNear & Arnold's School of Performing Arts & Cultural Education (SPACE) (View)
508 West Perkins Street
Ukiah, CA 95482
United States
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