![]() Born in 1895, Still is remembered as the Dean of African-American Composers and achieved many firsts. Joining the lineup is contemporary musician Still, whose story is quite groundbreaking. Mozart is an inexhaustible fount of beautiful melodies.” ![]() It's got a touching romance, a swinging minuet and a brilliant last movement. “It's got all the right things for a beautiful Mozart piece. “I would hope the audience at home could pour themselves a glass of wine and pretend they're at a soirée in Vienna. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, roughly translated as “A Little Night Music,” was meant as a serenade that would have been played in an outdoor setting during a social occasion. Mozart’s wrote his piece roughly 50 years after Vivaldi’s composition gained popularity, when classical replaced baroque as the style du jour. ![]() In it, listeners can hear characters in the plot such as the sound of birds and streams in spring, a summertime storm, peasants dancing during fall, and a crackling fire in winter.įrom one familiar piece to the next, people will recognize Serenade in G major from the Academy Award-winning biopic Amadeus, where Italian composer Antonio Salieri regretted that he should have written the piece as it became more familiar than Salieri’s own creations. The violin concerto as an art form was only about 25 years old when this piece was written, and Vivaldi’s work is one of the earliest examples of program music, or music that tells a story. Published in 1725, it features four violin solos. “ The Four Seasons is an incredibly original piece, and it's quite precise for what it is,” McGegan said.Īs the title implies, The Four Seasons depicts the year’s cycle in Venice, starting with spring and ending with winter. Under the guidance of guest conductor Nic McGegan, the orchestra will play the baroque masterpiece along with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Serenade in G major ( Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) and William Grant Still’s “Summerland” from Three Visions. ![]() This weekend, get a dose of each quarter of Mother Nature's beauty during Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, presented by Houston Symphony as part of its Live at Jones Hall series. Here's something Houstonians don't normally experience in our typical year-round, mercury-raising climate: all four seasons.
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