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February 2019
Reel Forces
REEL FORCES: Reflections of humanity, memory, and conflict Kick-off Oscars weekend with an evening of the meta, the miniscule, and the far-reaching as Musiqa celebrates experimental film and live music. “Reel Forces” examines the traces of humanity, memory, and conflict through “Beyond Zero: 1914-1918,” a moving and mesmerizing film of rare WWI archival footage by auteur-director Bill Morrison, and scored for string quartet by Aleksandra Vrebalov. Works by Marcus K. Maroney and Florent Ghys complete the program. 1 POINT - MEMBERS…
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Travel around Europe by rail on February 23 with “Ticket to Ride,” beginning with Jim Stephenson’s musical tribute to miniature trains, ROCOmotive. Conductor (see what we did there!) Brett Mitchell steers the proceedings in his ROCO debut, taking audiences on a tour to England and Germany with Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Poland with Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa, France with the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring Richard Belcher, ROCO principal cello, as soloist, and finally to Austria with Mozart’s Symphony No.…
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Love & War: Baroque Style featuring Rachel Barton Pine
Program: ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto in D Major for Viola d'amore and Orchestra, RV. 392 Concerto in D Minor for Viola d'amore and Orchestra, RV. 395 GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6 PIETRO LOCATELLI L'Arte del Violino, Op. 3, No. 12 “The Harmonic Labyrinth” HEINRICH BIBER Battalia For one night only, the extraordinary Rachel Barton Pine lends her sublime musicality and talent to Mercury as soloist and leader of the ensemble in a program of…
Find out more »April 2019
Tchaikovsky and Elgar
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 Elgar: Serenade for Strings, Op. 20 Elgar: Serenade for Strings, Op. 20 Two jewels of the romantic period. Tchaikovsky’s homage to his idol Mozart, modernizing classical elements with his own lush and lyrical style, is paired with Elgar’s delightful and endearing early work. Two jewels of the romantic period. Tchaikovsky’s homage to his idol Mozart, modernizing classical elements with his own lush and lyrical style, is paired with Elgar’s delightful and endearing early work. 1…
Find out more »May 2019
The Wrestler
The final concert of the In Concert series on May 4, “The Wrestler,” features the world premiere of Erberk Eryılmaz’s Koca Yusuf, Wrestling Airs for Chamber Orchestra, written in memory of Koca Yusuf, an internationally famous, 19th century Turkish wrestler who instigated a riot when he threw an opponent out of a ring during a match at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 1898. Conductor David Danzmayr brings one of his favorite pieces, Jocelyn Morlock’s Solace, into the…
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