AN EVENING OF STRING QUARTETS CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAYS OF SCHUBERT AND MOZART PERFORMED BY THE CAPITOL ENSEMBLE. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 7:30 PM, CONTRAPUNTAL HALL, BRENTWOOD.
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AN EVENING OF STRING QUARTETS CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAYS OF SCHUBERT AND MOZART PERFORMED BY THE CAPITOL ENSEMBLE. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 7:30 PM, CONTRAPUNTAL HALL, BRENTWOOD.
PLEASE JOIN MEMBERS OF THE CAPITOL ENSEMBLE PHILLIP LEVY AND SERENA MCKINNEY-VIOLINS, ZACH DELLINGER-VIOLA AND ERIC BYERS-CELLO, IN THE BEAUTIFUL ACOUSTICS OF BRENTWOOD'S CONTRAPUNTAL HALL, FOR AN EVENING OF STRING QUARTETS CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAYS OF MOZART AND SCHUBERT.
KNOWN AS HIS "LITTLE QUARTET IN E FLAT" SCHUBERT'S OP.125 IS ONE OF HIS MOST DELIGHTFUL AND CHEERFUL COMPOSITIONS. IT ALSO CONTAINS ONE OF THE FASTEST SCHERZOS EVER WRITTEN AND A BOISTEROUS FINALE WHICH INCLUDES A MOST BEAUTIFUL MELODY THAT TRULY CHARMS THE EAR.
SCHUBERT MADE NO SECRET OF THE FACT THAT HE WAS ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH MOZART'S MUSIC... "O MOZART! IMMORTAL MOZART", HE WROTE, " WHAT COUNTLESS IMPRESSIONS OF A BRIGHTER, BETTER LIFE HAST THOU STAMPED UPON OUR SOULS!"
MOZART'S STRING QUARTET IN G MAJOR K.387, NICKNAMED "THE SPRING", IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF SIX STRING QUARTETS DEDICATED TO HIS BELOVED MENTOR, JOSEPH HAYDN. IT IS SAID THAT WHEN HAYDN HEARD THIS QUARTET, HE DECLARED TO MOZART'S FATHER, THAT "BEFORE GOD I STAND AND AS AN HONEST MAN, I TELL YOU THAT YOUR SON IS THE GREATEST COMPOSER KNOWN TO ME EITHER IN PERSON OR BY NAME. HE HAS TASTE AND, WHAT IS MORE, THE MOST PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE OF COMPOSITION"
IT IS A WARMLY LYRICAL COMPOSITION, BUT WITHIN IT, MOZART PLAYS SEVERAL MUSICAL TRICKS ON THE LISTENER.
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Contrapuntal Performance Hall (View)
655 North Bundy Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
United States
