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Northwest Sinfonietta Music Off the Record

Northwest Sinfonietta Music Off the Record. The music of Mozart, Mozart, and Chagnard -Dr. Ken Owen. Mozart. Most beloved composer Start of NWS! Many stories – favorites?. Child-prodigy. Symphony at 8 Oratorio at 11 Opera at 12 Toured Europe as a child Played for highest royalty

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Northwest Sinfonietta Music Off the Record

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  1. Northwest SinfoniettaMusic Off the Record The music of Mozart, Mozart, and Chagnard -Dr. Ken Owen

  2. Mozart • Most beloved composer • Start of NWS! • Many stories – favorites?

  3. Child-prodigy • Symphony at 8 • Oratorio at 11 • Opera at 12 • Toured Europe as a child • Played for highest royalty • Played for pope • Absorbed styles – shaped his own • Cosmopolitan composer

  4. Mozart

  5. Mozart • What happens to child stars when they grow up? • Court of Archbishop of Salzburg w/Dad • Hated it – not famous • Tour as adult • Couldn’t get a good job • Mom Died while in Paris

  6. Mozart • Back to Salzburg • Trip to Vienna w/Archbishop’s orchestra • Stay as freelance composer • Started well • Ended bad – fickle public

  7. Piano concerto 23 in A • Composed in 1786 – Vienna • While working on “Marriage of Figaro” • Financial stress – becoming passé in Vienna. • 3rd baby born – lived 1 month • Little performing • Figaro popular in Prague, so he goes there

  8. Piano concerto 23 • One of most popular today • Perhaps Mozart’s own favorite • Took it on travels and performed it a lot • Wrote out the cadenza • C major, but full of depth • 2nd movement in a rare key for Mozart • F# minor • 3rd movement lively and cheerful

  9. Symphony 39 • One of last 3 – composed together in 1788 • Composed at a stone table in garden • Bad year • Figaro and Don Giovanni alienated the aristocracy ($) and fed into spirit of revolution • Had to move because no money • Poor health for he and Constanza

  10. Symphony 39 • Warm and optimistic sounding despite circumstances • No concept of composer writing to express own emotions of time • A job, composed what would bring in $ • Commission for Symphony 39? • Ahead of his time in concept of artist and in expression.

  11. Chagnard • Born in France • Parents listen to many types of music, including classical. No other music training. • Pianist in High school • Started guitar to play with • Rock n’ Roll – Pink Floyd • All by hear

  12. Chagnard • Visited Father in NY in 1982 • Getting into jazz, more serious about music • Visited Berkley School of Music • Huge impact • Stayed and studied for 1 year • Back to France to work and save • Back to Boston to finish education • Composition/film scoring focus • Led to conducting

  13. Chagnard • Frenchman writing Cuban music? • Precedent • De Falla, Albeniz, and Goyesca all learned to compose “Spanish” music from Ravel. • Exoticism Nationalism • Recent experiences in Cuba • Description of hearing bands from room • Natural dance and rhythms of the people

  14. Cuban music • Many influences over the centuries • West African slaves – rhythm • Natural rhythms – clave rather than 4/4 • Natural ease of dance.

  15. Embargo • 6 movements – each a specific dance • Specific rhythms • Researched and worked w/Cuban musicians

  16. Embargo • I Guaguanco • Fast, clave rhythms, hand claps, guitar • II Son • Slow fanfare – faster, clave, no strings • III Danzon • Slow relaxed tempo. Eerie start w/harmonics and “sound effects?” • IV Cha-cha-cha • Slide, moderate tempo, solo clarinet melody • 2nd section – gaps of scilence • 3rd section – 1st tempo, “as if nothing happened”

  17. Embargo • V Bolero • Minor, sultry and swaggering Spanish, trumpet solo w/guitar strumming • VI Mambo • Full orch. Clave, • Complex layers, using families • Similar to Rouse’s bump, but not so twisted

  18. Enjoy the concert! • Questions or comments on lecture? • kowen@pierce.ctc.edu • Powerpoint on web • Choralconductor.org

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