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Mostly Mozart: Week Three
A Week of Rarity, Beauty, and the Latest Renditions of Original Works.
Inside the world’s first indoor summer music festival something incredible is happening. Mozart lovers and music enthusiasts alike can experience all that is and is inspired by the historic composer. The Mostly Mozart Festival not only offers a vast supply of Mozart’s work, but also his predecessor’s and contemporaries’ works, as well as related successor’s works.
From August 14th through the 20th the Mostly Mozart Festival features three major acts: the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the Mark Morris Dance Group.
Beginning August 14th San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will perform Handel’s opera, Orlando, as a period piece. This love story of tragedy and emotion is rarely performed at Alice Tully Hall and will be lead by Nicholas McGegan. A pre-concert lecture on “The Magic of Handel’s Orlando” will also be performed by Raymond Erickson.
The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will perform in Avery Fisher Hall August 16th and 17th with the primary Stravinsky spotlight. Jonathan Nott will make his festival debut leading the orchestra in their rendition of Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Soloist Juho Pohjonen will also perform his Mostly Mozart debut with the orchestra.
The Mostly Mozart Orchestra will return on Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th with conductor Louis Langrée and festival debut pianist Nelson Freire performing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto.
Week three will wrap up with the Mark Morris Dance Group’s, a troupe with nearly ten-years of partnership with the Mostly Mozart Festival, performing a Stravinsky opera-ballet and the choreographer’s newest work, Renard. Dubbed the “Mozart of modern dance”, Mark Morris is known for his emphasis in musicality. The group will also perform Socrates and another new piece, Festival Dance, at the Rose Theater August 18th through the 20th.
First presented as an experiment, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival began in 1966. After the first two seasons of exclusive Mozart music, the company changed its name and broadened its horizons to include other influential composers.