Lincoln Center’s annual Mostly Mozart program will begin July 25, and it won’t take long to get into the Masonic material. On Friday, July 28 and Saturday, July 29, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, led by Conductor Edward Gardner, will deliver a performance of Mozart’s, Beethoven’s, and Schubert’s music. From the publicity:
Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert
July 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m.
David Geffen Hall
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Jeremy Denk, piano
“Luminous atmosphere and edge-of-the-seat excitement.”
– The Times (U.K.) on Edward Gardner
“Irrepressibly charismatic...a joy to watch.”
– New York Times on Jeremy Denk
Maestro Edward Gardner’s “powerful, impassioned conducting” (Seattle Times) finds its match in the “irrepressibly charismatic” pianist Jeremy Denk (New York Times) in a program that moves from dark to light. Mozart’s austere work, composed for his fellow Freemasons, and Beethoven’s supremely lyrical concerto give way to a sunlit Schubert finale.
Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Click here for more festival information. Click here for tickets to either of these concerts.
There will be pre-concert recitals (Shubert: Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen for flute and piano) by Jasmine Choi, flute; and Roman Rabinovich, piano at 6:30.
According to the indispensible website of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon:
Mozart’s Masonic music falls into three broad categories:
- music he wrote specifically for the lodge;
- music intended for the public but built on Masonic themes; and
- music he wrote for other purposes, but which was adapted, either by himself or others, for Masonic use.
K.477 Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music). Composed in Vienna on 10 November 1785 for a Lodge of Sorrows held by Lodge Crowned Hope a week later for the funerals of Bro. Georg August, Duke of Mecklenburg-Streletz and Bro. Franz, Count Esterhazy of Galantha.
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