Members of the Hamilton College Music faculty, conducted by Heather Buchman, will join forces for a program of late Romantic Bohemian and Viennese masterpieces: Antonin Dvorak's Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 and Richard Strauss' Bourgeois Gentleman, on Thursday, April 1, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.
Dvorak's Serenade in D minor is one of the major chamber works for wind instruments. Modelled after the Mozart's wind serenades, it bears Dvorak's trademark of blending folk dance-inspired writing with the longer lines and more subtle harmonic language of Dvorak's friend and supporter Johannes Brahms.
Strauss wrote incidental music for Moliere's Bourgeios gentilhomme in 1912. The Bourgeois Gentleman invokes the spirit of older Vienna, and uses fragments of music by Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully to resurrect the ethos of the Moliere play. Both Strauss and Dvorak take advantage of the increasing skills of musicians in these virtuosic works for chamber orchestra.
This concert is free and open to the public. All seating is general admission and tickets are not required. For more information call the Performing Arts Box Office at 859-4331.
