Chorale jupiter program notes

In the final weeks of his life, Schubert worked on a new symphony, which he did not live to complete. The surviving fragments of what is now known as Symphony No. The finale has all these i d eas supe r imposed , bursting out, one after the othe r , like fireworks. The ingenuity is almost unimaginable, limitless. In the summer of , the poverty-stricken composer wrote a series of desperate letters to his friend Michael Puchberg, pleading for loans.

Mozart also pawned several valuables, tried to get advances from his publisher, and attempted to sell his manuscripts; these humiliating efforts yielded little. Even for Mozart this rate of output is remarkable, especially given the high quality of all three works. Mozart probably wrote them for a series of concerts he planned to present in Vienna later that summer, or for a trip to London which he never made , or perhaps both.

There is no surviving documentation regarding the premieres for these symphonies, but the speed at which Mozart composed them suggests an urgent need for new music that would entice audiences back to the concert hall.

In the Andante , Mozart departs from the buoyant C major of the opening with a series of yearning sequences in the strings that morph into distant, exotic harmonies. In the glorious finale for which music lovers, scholars, and critics have been searching in vain for the proper adjectives to describe its perfection for almost two centuries , Mozart combines fugue-style Baroque counterpoint, which he learned studying the music of J. Bach, with balanced classical phrases. Elizabeth Schwartz is a free-lance writer, musician, and music historian based in Portland.

Schwartz also writes about performing arts and culture for Oregon Jewish Life Magazine. He was influenced by Stravinsky and Hindemith, and interested in combining dissonance, serialism, tonalism and contrapuntal exploration. How do you think up all those things?

Horn, with whom Morris wrote the opera The Maid of Saxony. McCurry, who compiled pieces in the songbook The Social Harp. Koponen is known as a trumpeter, a conductor, and an expert on contemporary Finnish music, with degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Juilliard and Columbia.

Gregory Rose is the founder and music director of several ensembles including the Jupiter Orchestra and Singcircle, and a frequent choral, orchestral and operatic conductor as well as professor of conducting at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Higley and music by Daniel E. Bach, and jazz; he wrote many choral works and more than theater scores. His wistful song is often described as a reaction to the impending breakup of his marriage with Carly Simon.