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Join the CSO for an Enchanting Evening of ALL MOZART
By: BWW News Desk Jan. 10, 2017
The Columbus Symphony presents All Mozart at the Southern Theatre (21 E. Main St.) on Friday and Saturday, February 17 and 18, at 8pm. Tickets start at $10 and can be purchased at the CAPA Ticket Center (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 228-8600 or (800) 745-3000. The CAPA Ticket Center will also be open two hours prior to each performance.
The 2016-17 Masterworks Series is made possible through the generous support of season sponsor Anne Melvin.
Prelude - Patrons are invited to join Christopher Purdy in the theatre at 7pm for a 30-minute, pre-concert discussion about the works to be performed.
Postlude - At the conclusion of the Friday program, patrons are encouraged to meet the musicians in the adjacent Thurber's Bar (The Westin Columbus, 310 S. High St.).
About CSO Music Director Rossen Milanov
Respected and admired by audiences and musicians alike, Rossen Milanov is currently the Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and recently completed his second season with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra to enthusiastic acclaim. He is also Music Director of the Princeton Symphony and Spain's Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA).
The 2016-17 CSO season builds upon many of the innovative ideas that were introduced in his first season-thematic festivals, enrichment programs, integrated experiences, and collaborations with other local cultural institutions. In Princeton, he is continuing the tradition of adventurous programming and collaborating with violinist Leila Josefowicz, clarinetist David Krakauer, and composers Saad Haddad and Zhou Tian. In Spain, he will conduct the Spanish premiere of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa with the Oviedo Opera and the gala concert of the "Princess of Asturias" awards with OSPA.
Milanov has collaborated with some of the world's preeminent artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Midori, Christian Tetzlaff, and André Watts. During his 11-year tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he conducted more than 200 performances as Associate Conductor and as Artistic Director of the Orchestra's summer home at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts. In 2015, he completed a 15-year tenure as Music Director of the nationally recognized training orchestra Symphony in C in New Jersey. His passion for new music has resulted in numerous world premieres of works by composers such as Richard Danielpour, Nicolas Maw, and Gabriel Prokofiev among others.
Rossen Milanov studied conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, where he received the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship.
About guest pianist Shai Wosner
Pianist Shai Wosner has attracted international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity, and creative insight. His broad range of repertoire, from Beethoven and Mozart to Schoenberg and Ligeti to music by his contemporaries, communicate his imaginative programming and intellectual curiosity. Wosner has appeared with major orchestras worldwide, and is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award-a prize he used to commission Michael Hersch's concerto Along the Ravines, which he then performed with the Seattle Symphony and Deutsche Radio Philharmonie-Saarbrücken.
About composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era, composing more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western classical music.
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts based on the legend of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga (now called the Estates Theatre) on October 29, 1787. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa (comic opera), although it blends comedy, melodrama, and supernatural elements. Reports about the last-minute completion of the overture are conflicting. Some say it was completed the day before the premiere, some on the very day. More likely it was completed the day before, in light of the fact that Mozart recorded the completion of the opera on October 28.
Mozart completed the Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major on March 9, 1785, just four weeks after the completion of the previous D minor concerto. The second movement was featured in the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan about a love affair between a tightrope dancer and a married Swedish officer. As a result, the piece has become widely known as the Elvira Madigan concerto
The Symphony No. 39 is the first of a set of three (his last symphonies) that Mozart composed in rapid succession during the summer of 1788. The date of its premiere cannot be established, so it is not known if it was performed during Mozart's lifetime.
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