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Moody Conducts Mozart
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Memphis Symphony Orchestra
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Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
January 16-January 17, 2010
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Music director candidate Robert Moody takes you on a musical tour from the courts of Salzburg to the icy fjords of Finland in this concert of audience favorites, featuring Mozart's Symphony No. 35 "Haffner". Guest violinist Karen Gomyo performs Sibelius' Violin Concerto.
The Saturday performance will be held at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts.
The Sunday performance will be held at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre.
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Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
255 N. Main Street
Memphis, TN 38104
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Tickets: Tickets range from $15 to $78 for Saturday performance.
Tickets are $29 and $45 per person for Sunday performance.
Info Phone: 901-537-2525
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Dates & Times
Dates:
January 16-January 17, 2010
Times:
8 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2010
2:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 17, 2010
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Event Name: Moody Conducts Mozart
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posted by:
George Lapides - ArtsMemphis Rants & Raver
from Memphis, TN,
Jan 20, 2010
The committee in charge of picking a new music director replacing David Loebel has a problem. The good kind. Committee members don't need to search far and wide for the new maestro. A number of very...
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The committee in charge of picking a new music director replacing David Loebel has a problem. The good kind. Committee members don't need to search far and wide for the new maestro. A number of very high caliber candidates already have emerged and they've displayed their capabilities as guest conductors during MSO's First Tennessee Grand Series. The latest: Robert Moody, currently music director at the orchestras in both Winston-Salem and Portland, Maine and who is no stranger to Memphis, having led the MSO in guest appearances in past years.
After the orchestra's performance last weekend, several long time orchestra patrons could be heard walking out of the halls saying such things as, "hire him now."
But the competition is stiff. Very stiff. Especially from Mei-Ann Chen of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Some members of the MSO's search committee believe she is the rising star of the maestro business. And she very well may be. But there are more guest conductors-candidates to come. Next up is Thomas Wilkins, music director of the Omaha Symphony, who will conduct the MSO the weekend of February 6-7. So who really knows?
As for this past weekend, the program was wonderfully varied, and under Moody's guidance, the orchestra rarely has sounded better. Some credit should go to the guest soloist, the young violist Karen Gomyo. The combination of her 18th century Strad and her talent were about as unbeatable as Alabama's football team. She performed a work from Jean Sibelius, his only strictly instrumental concerto and known only as Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra. Ms. Gomy was, in a word, terrific. And in a neat twist on Sunday at GPAC, she changed out of formal dress after Sibelius and during intermission and returned in blue jeans and a white shirt and sat in the back row of the violin section and played as just another orchestra member in the performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 25. Little wonder she would do that because it's one of Mozart's greatest compositions, done ironically, when he was absorbed in the Viena production of his new opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio, which may have been his worst work.
And Robert Moody? He was comfortable, relaxed and casual in a nice and warm way and very friendly when he spoke on Saturday night 30 minutes before the show and then from the stand to tell the audience more about what they were going to hear. His direction of the new and haunting Rainbow Body by Christopher Theofanidis, the 43-year old Dallas born composer, not only was on target, but it was a straight on bulls-eye. Moody made it seem that the MSO couldn't go wrong picking him to succeed Loebel but it could hardly miss with Ms. Chen and perhaps not with the other candidates who will follow.
Stay tuned.
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"Stay Tuned"
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posted by:
George Lapides - ArtsMemphis Rants & Raver
from Memphis, TN,
Jan 20, 2010
The committee in charge of picking a new music director replacing David Loebel has a problem. The good kind. Committee members don't need to search far and wide for the new maestro. A number of very...
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The committee in charge of picking a new music director replacing David Loebel has a problem. The good kind. Committee members don't need to search far and wide for the new maestro. A number of very high caliber candidates already have emerged and they've displayed their capabilities as guest conductors during MSO's First Tennessee Grand Series. The latest: Robert Moody, currently music director at the orchestras in both Winston-Salem and Portland, Maine and who is no stranger to Memphis, having led the MSO in guest appearances in past years.
After the orchestra's performance last weekend, several long time orchestra patrons could be heard walking out of the halls saying such things as, "hire him now."
But the competition is stiff. Very stiff. Especially from Mei-Ann Chen of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Some members of the MSO's search committee believe she is the rising star of the maestro business. And she very well may be. But there are more guest conductors-candidates to come. Next up is Thomas Wilkins, music director of the Omaha Symphony, who will conduct the MSO the weekend of February 6-7. So who really knows?
As for this past weekend, the program was wonderfully varied, and under Moody's guidance, the orchestra rarely has sounded better. Some credit should go to the guest soloist, the young violist Karen Gomyo. The combination of her 18th century Strad and her talent were about as unbeatable as Alabama's football team. She performed a work from Jean Sibelius, his only strictly instrumental concerto and known only as Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra. Ms. Gomy was, in a word, terrific. And in a neat twist on Sunday at GPAC, she changed out of formal dress after Sibelius and during intermission and returned in blue jeans and a white shirt and sat in the back row of the violin section and played as just another orchestra member in the performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 25. Little wonder she would do that because it's one of Mozart's greatest compositions, done ironically, when he was absorbed in the Viena production of his new opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio, which may have been his worst work.
And Robert Moody? He was comfortable, relaxed and casual in a nice and warm way and very friendly when he spoke on Saturday night 30 minutes before the show and then from the stand to tell the audience more about what they were going to hear. His direction of the new and haunting Rainbow Body by Christopher Theofanidis, the 43-year old Dallas born composer, not only was on target, but it was a straight on bulls-eye. Moody made it seem that the MSO couldn't go wrong picking him to succeed Loebel but it could hardly miss with Ms. Chen and perhaps not with the other candidates who will follow.
Stay tuned.
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