Solo Journeys | Thursday, May 18, 3 PM

“Solo Journeys”
Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 3 PM | $5-20
Chamber Music at the Church
Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder

 

 

Daniel Silver

  • BERIO Sequenza I for Flute
  • WELLESZ Rhapsody for Viola Solo, Op. 87
  • MESSIAEN Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of the Birds)
    from the Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
  • REGER Suite in D Minor for Violoncello Solo, Op. 131c No. 2
  • SCHULHOFF Sonata for Solo Violin

Zachary DePue, violin
Parry Karp, cello
Hannah Porter Occeña, flute
Daniel Silver, clarinet
Lauren Spaulding, viola

 

“Deep down, spiritually and emotionally, modern music started with Mahler” – Luciano Berio

This unique program will feature our Festival Artists, leaders in our orchestra, playing solo works by composers influenced by Mahler.

Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio orchestrated a number of Mahler’s songs. Of the third part of his Sinfonia he wrote, it “is a tribute to Gustav Mahler (whose work sometimes seems to carry all the weight of the last two centuries of musical history) and, in particular, to the third movement of his Second Symphony.”

Egon Wellesz decided to become a composer at the age of 14 after hearing Mahler conduct Der Freischütz. After Mahler’s death, he continued his friendship with Alma and was instrumental in her acceptance of the completion of Symphony No. 10.

French composer Olivier Messiaen spent his summers composing in a countryside cottage, similar to Mahler’s ‘composing huts.’ Both Mahler and Messiaen wrote works that intertwined messages of nature, God, and love.

Egon Wellesz

Like Mahler, Schulhoff was born in the Czech Republic to a German-speaking Jewish family. He was influenced by Mahler’s integration of vernacular music into classical genres. Where Mahler found inspiration in the march, the waltz, and the Ländler, Schulhoff turned to the shimmy, the tango, and the ragtime.

Austrian composer Hans Gál attended Mahler’s rehearsals of the Vienna opera as a boy. In 1938 he fled to London, eventually settling in Edinburgh where, in 1945, he became a lecturer in musical education at the University of Edinburgh. In that role, he was mentor to Thea Musgrave who’s Phoenix Rising will be performed on Sunday.

What to Expect

Mountain View United Methodist is a beautiful building located in the Frasier Meadows neighborhood. There is plenty of free parking in the lot on the west side of the building and the surrounding surface streets. The main doors are on the west side of the building just south of the sanctuary (and north of the school wing). You’ll enter there and make your way through a spacious lobby to the sanctuary. The church holds about 250 people with chairs on the main floor and pews in the balcony.

As with all of our concerts, you are free to dress up but it is certainly not required, especially for an afternoon performance.