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Immortal Amadeus!
Mozart and Haydn Featured on Ridgefield Symphony's Saturday Performance
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has become a cultural icon, the personification of human genius and musical perfection. And a pop culture icon as well! Who can forget the Academy-award winning movie “Amadeus,” the eponymous 1980’s hit “Rock me, Amadeus” or today’s Emmy-winning series “Mozart in the Jungle.” Mozart’s appeal is truly as timeless as his music.
Perhaps the most fulsome, and yet honest, appraisal of Mozart comes from his older contemporary, Franz Joseph Haydn. Writing Mozart’s father, he states, “I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute.”
Join the RSO on Saturday, March 5th, 8:00 pm, at Wilton High School’s Clune Auditorium for CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARIES in a program featuring symphonies by Mozart and Haydn and a concerto for two horns by Telemann.
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Haydn’s Symphony #67 is a work of great inventiveness, jovial good humor and expressive lyricism; Georg Philipp Telemann’s Concerto for Two Horns is a virtuoso showcase for RSO Principal Hornist Sara Della Posta and colleague Robert Hoyle. The concert ends with a performance of Mozart’s immortal Symphony #35, the “Haffner,” one of his finest, and most popular, symphonies.
The concert is “Classical” in that the works come from the classical era; it can be called “Contemporaries” in that Mozart & Haydn were active at the same time within the same Hapsburg Empire; but it truly is “Classical Contemporaries” in that the sheer genius of Mozart’s music transcends time and place and touches the mankind with a miraculous message that is timeless, always relevant and ever-new.
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Join us this Saturday, March 5th at Wilton High School’s acoustically excellent and visually stunning Clune Auditorium for CLASSICAL COMTEMPORARIES. Located on Route 7, Clune Auditorium is convenient to all major highways and short drive from everywhere in Fairfield and Westchester Counties.
Tickets and more information for the RSO’s March 5th performance are available online at the orchestra’s website, www.RidgefieldSymphony.org. Or call the RSO Box Office at 203-438-3889 today!
