Palisades Symphony and soloists will perform an all-Mozart concert on Sunday, February 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Palisades Charter High School’s Mercer Hall, 15777 Bowdoin. The concert, under the direction of Joel B. Lish, will include the Seraglio Overture, Concertantes Quartet for Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn and Bassoon and the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony, No. 41. The soloists will be Naomi Ozawa, oboe, Oliver Karp, clarinet, Robert Eatman, French horn, and Michael Sandler, bassoon. All have extensive musical backgrounds and are principals in the orchestra. ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ is the earliest of Mozart’s operas that are still regularly performed. The opera, written when Mozart was 26, mixes sparkling comedy with pathos and is one of the composer’s singspiels, which combines spoken dialogue and musical numbers. The Sinfonia Concertante was composed while Mozart was living in Paris and was originally intended for solo flute, oboe, bassoon and horn with an orchestra. Mysteriously, the manuscript was lost and nearly a century later the composition turned up with the solo clarinet part and no flute. The ‘Jupiter’ Symphony, the last of Mozart’s symphonies, was written along with two others within a period of a few weeks during the summer of 1788. The finale represents Mozart’s supreme achievement in counterpoint, and is so smooth flowing and seemingly simple that the layman can enjoy its charm while the music student appreciates its intricate construction. The concert is free of charge.
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