In this program, District5 performs music that is not only transformative in nature, but also serves to transform the members of District5 into different configurations. The program includes works by Mozart, Villa-Lobos, and Carter.
The quintet will also be joined by special guest Trevor Mowry, co-principal oboe of the "President's Own" United States Marine Band.
Thomas Adès' Arcadiana evokes images of idyll and conveys "a here that is gone, or is going." Excelsa contrasts Adès' mystical work with Mozart's String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat Major, which is one of six quartets that the composer dedicated to Haydn.
The program concludes with Steve Reich's Different Trains, which uses recording samples of train sounds and speech to juxtapose the composer's memories of being a Jewish child in 1940s America, with the memories of child-survivors of the Holocaust.
Join UMRO on their final concert of the 2014-2015 season. The concert will feature Brahms's Second Symphony: a piece which, from its original premiere, has been seen as one of Brahms's great triumphs.
The concert will begin with two well-known master works from the operatic canon. Weber's Overture to Der Freischütz is a passionate work which recounts the story of the opera--including the Agathe's beautiful aria and the dark Wolf's Glen scene. This will be followed by a suite featuring the music from one of the most famous operas of all-time: Bizet's Carmen.
These two virtuosos have shared a hallway at the School of Music for years but never played together—something must be done about this!
In their first ever sonata recital they team up to deliver Shostakovich at his most ecstatic, Mozart at his most operatic (well, apart from his operas of course), and Ravel at his most…Cubist? Each work, in its own way, revolutionizes the medium of violin and piano.
The quiet beauty, simplicity and harmonizing effect of Japanese nature are revealed in the music of the UMD Koto Ensemble.
The complex interlocking rhythms of Balinese music on percussive instruments, the myriad expressions and the delicate motions of Balinese dance unite in the UMD Gamelan Saraswati.
