MOZART Don Giovanni Overture
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
NEAL GITTLEMAN conductor
CHARLIE PAGNARD principal trumpet
With seats as low as $14, this new series brings the DPO to the intimate space of the Scottish Rite Auditorium at the Dayton Masonic Center to perform works from the great classical masters. Programs generally feature an opening overture and a light concerto, climaxing with a full symphony. A complimentary scoop of ice cream for each concertgoer tops off the afternoon! Each concert is performed without intermission and spans about 85 minutes. It's a delightful Sunday afternoon interlude.
The premiere of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni took place to great public and critical acclaim in Prague on October 29, 1787. Mozart created levels of dramatic expression, revealed large amounts of plot information with utmost musical economy, and wrote moments of great emotion, in which the accompanying orchestra virtually assumes a dramatic role. This wonderful overture sets the musical stage beautifully for the drama to follow.
The valveless trumpets of Haydn’s day could play only notes derived from a fundamental pitch and its related harmonic series, and so trumpet music tended to be melodically limited. The trumpet as we know it today has been greatly refined since Haydn's time, but the principle remains the same. Nonetheless, this splendidly orchestrated Trumpet Concerto from the pen of Joseph Haydn shows off the modern trumpet's technical capacity.
Wholly abstract and utterly symphonic, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony was certainly a definitive break with stylistic conventions practiced by Mozart, Haydn, and the legion of lesser mortals who copied them. A joyful and rhythmic work, it was called "the apotheosis of dance" by Wagner.
Edited from All Media Guide
