Starting off with the boisterous Hoe Down from American composer Aaron Copland’s ballet Rodeo (1942), the CySO and maestro Bachmann proceed to jazz it up with excerpts from Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra (post-1956) and then take the music through the roof in the company of an… ox through Milhaud’s Le Boeuf sur le toit, based on popular Brazilian tunes and premiered in Paris in 1920.
We then come down to earth however with Mozart’s Haffner symphony, written in the summer of 1782, when the composer – already preoccupied with establishing his name in Vienna, finishing his Abduction from the Seraglio, mending relations with his fiancé Constanze and relocating to another residence – received a letter from his father asking him to write a symphony for the Salzburg burgmaster. Mozart of course obliged, sent it to his father in Salzburg, and even he himself was amazed when, a year later, he conducted it for the first time at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Venue:
PallasTheatre
Rigainis and Arsinois
Pafos Gate, Old Lefkosia
Lefkosia, Cyprus
Ticket prices:
12 Euro, 7 Euro (18-26 yrs, pensioners), 5 Euro (12-18 yrs), 3 Euro (under 12)
Ticket presales:
Pallas Theatre (Regenis and Arsinoes corner, Lefkosia 1010, +357 22 410 181)
Online at cyso.org.cy
Box Office, Wed 16:00-19:00 and 2 hrs before the concert
Information: +357 22 463 144, www.cyso.org.cy
Copland: Hoe Down (from Rodeo) for strings
Shostakovitch:Excerpted movements from Suite for Variety Orchestra (formerly: Suite for Jazz Orchestra no. 2)Mozard
Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le toit
A. Mozart: Haffner Symphonyno. 35, K. 385
Conductor: Jens Georg Bachmann
Supporters: Rialto Theatre, Lemesos Municipality, Pafos Municipality
Friday, December 08, 2017, 20:30
