THE CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY
Steven Fox, Music Director and Conductor
Join the Clarion Society Orchestra for its 50th Anniversary season at concerts in two of New York's finest early music venues.
Lead underwriting for Clarion's 2007-08 Season is generously provided by Bank of America.
Full details below.
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| W. A. Mozart |
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| 'Gemütlichkeit von Salzburg'
Musical delights from Salzburg by two close colleagues and dear friends: Michael Haydn and W.A. Mozart.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 8 PM
St. Michael's Church
225 West 99th Street (at Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10025
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Mozart's ebullient early Salzburg works, Te Deum, K. 141 (long attributed to M. Haydn) and Regina Coeli, K. 276, will be complemented by Haydn's Symphony in D Major, MH 198, written in Salzburg in 1774, and his masterful Requiem for Archbishop Siegmund. The Requiem is an astounding work written in memory of the archbishop who hired Haydn at Salzburg Cathedral and of Haydn's young daughter, who passed away a year before the archbishop. Both Leopold and W.A. Mozart played in the orchestra in the first performance, and the work bears remarkable similarities to Mozart's own Requiem, written more than 10 years later
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The Early Romantic Masters
Modern Premieres of two works by Mendelssohn, plus Donizetti, Schubert
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
980 Park Avenue (at 84th Street)
New York, NY 10028
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| F. Mendelssohn |
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Clarion returns to St. Ignatius Loyola this spring for a rare venture into the realm of Romanticism on period instruments and a program that will highlight unpublished and unknown works by one of the 19th century's greatest musical figures, Felix Mendelssohn. Considered in his own day the greatest composer on the European continent, Mendelssohn enjoyed a feverish popularity that plummeted following his death, due largely to the vitriol of influential writers and composers such as Wagner and Liszt, who did not approve of "Judaism in Music." Additionally, Mendelssohn, the most prolific composer since Mozart, often wrote not for commissions but entirely for pleasure, and many of those works ended up in his drawer as he swiftly moved on to the next project. At the time of his death, these manuscripts were left unpublished, and to this very day, more than 300 remain so. Clarion performs works never before heard by this great genius: the unpublished later version of Sinfonia No. 3 for Strings in E minor and arias from two unpublished operas. The program will also include Donizetti's Ave Maria, Schubert's sacred aria for soprano and strings, Salve Regina, and his intimate Mass in B-flat.
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$40 - Preferred
| $30 - General
| $10 - Sides (partial view)
Limited number available
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| St. Ignatius Loyola |
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| St. Ignatius Church was designed by Schickel and Ditmars and dedicated in 1898. The interior is distinguished by a magnification of the exterior’s subtle dynamism. Passing through the great bronze outer doors one enters the first interior space, the narthex (or foyer). Revetted (sheathed) in Bottincina-framed grey Cipollino marble and paved in pink Tennessee marble, the narthex is purposefully subdued, both in color and light, in order to heighten one’s experience of the visual drama waiting beyond the leather-clad inner doors. Crossing the threshold into the church’s main interior is to enter into an unmistakable and unique sacred space. In true Baroque fashion, one is swept up in a fluid and vivid space awash in changing light, the play of bright and subdued colors, and a rich iconographic program. The basic design is that of a Roman basilica; a central longitudinal west/east nave, here supported by two side aisles and interrupted only by shallow vestigial north/south transepts, culminates in the curve-walled sanctuary apse that creates a 160 foot long space well suited to the liturgy and music.
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