Suburban Symphony Orchestra
Beachwood HS Auditorium
October 14, 2008
3:30PM/5:30PM FREE
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25100 Fairmount Blvd.
Beachwood, Ohio 44122
440.248.8341
Suburban Symphony Orchestra opens its concert season Sunday, Oct. 14 at 3:30 PM with “Best of Friends”, a program of work by classical music icons Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Antonin Dvorak. The concert is free to all and takes place at Beachwood High School Auditorium (25100 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood).
SSO’s Oct. 14 concert presents one work by each of these three classical music giants. Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture is first on the program, followed by Mozart’s Horn Concerto #2 and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. Susan Allen is horn soloist for the Mozart piece. An astute musician, for almost twenty years she has played 1st horn for SSO.
Why do composers like Brahms, Mozart and Dvorak write what they write? Is it always for the sake of their art, to widen the expression of human experience or broaden the repertoire? Lofty mindsets indeed, but it is also enlightening to look at composers’ more common reasons for creating their works.
Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture was written as musical thanks to the University of Breslau for the honorary doctorate awarded him. Loathsome of public celebrity fanfare, however, the composer was extremely reluctant to create the piece. However, at the urging of a colleague Brahms finally agreed protocol required something more than a handwritten note. He jokingly voiced his discomfort within the overture itself, however, by basing it on a collection of drinking songs…all composed with careful musical mastery, of course.
Mozart wrote four concertos for horn, all of them included in most professional horn players’ repertoire. Mozart wrote all four for Joseph Ignaz Leitgeb. The men met as members of the Salzburg court orchestra. Leitgeb was an excellent player. This is known because of the skill that was demanded playing these concertos on his period instrument. He had to have been a good player as well as a good friend.
Dvorak wrote and orchestrated the Symphony #8 within 2½ months in Vysoka, Bohemia. He dedicated the score “To The Bohemian Academy of Emperor Franz Joseph for the Encouragement of Arts and Literature, in thanks for my election.” Dvorak also conducted this cheery symphony’s premiere. The work draws on Bohemian folk music which the composer dearly loved. It was thus both a fitting tribute to the Bohemian Academy’s cultural efforts as well as a labor of love.
More Information: http://suburbansymphony.org
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