MASTERWORKS 2009-10
Concert Series
Capitol Theater
8:00 p.m.
Masterworks IV
Friday, March 26, 2010
Ryan Anthony, trumpet
Albinoni: Concerto St. Marc
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Shostakovich: (arr. Barshai) Chamber Symphony Op. 110a
We welcome back trumpet virtuoso, Ryan Anthony, who wowed audiences at Concerts on the Square in 2008. He is featured on two works in the first half, Italian baroque composer, Tomaso Albinoni’s Concerto St Marc, followed by Haydn’s historical Trumpet Concerto. At the time of composition, it was one of the first concerti written for the newly invented “valve” trumpet and is a masterpiece. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.8, has had numerous arrangements for string orchestra, but most notably by the Russian violist and conductor, Rudolf Barshai., known as Chamber Symphony Op.110a. Shostakovich wrote the Eighth Quartet over three days in 1953 while visiting Dresden, on assignment to write music for a documentary film about the bombing of that city during World War II. At the time, he was so overcome and depressed, speculation exists that he may have been considering suicide. Was he writing about his dismay at the destruction of War, or was he writing a subliminal suicide note? Borrowing themes from his earlier Symphony No’s 1 and 5, and the Cello Concerto No.1, it is both a powerful and personal testimony of one man’s search for the meaning of life.
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