Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has become a cultural icon, the personification of human genius and musical perfection. And a pop culture icon as well. Who can forget the Academy Award-winning movie Amadeus, the eponymous 1980s hit Rock me, Amadeus, or today’s Emmy-winning series Mozart in the Jungle? Mozart’s appeal is truly as timeless as his music.
Perhaps the most fulsome, and yet honest, appraisal of Mozart comes from his older contemporary, Franz Joseph Haydn.
Writing Mozart’s father, he states, “I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute.”
Join the RSO on Saturday, March 5, at 8 p.m. at Wilton High School’s Clune Auditorium for classical contemporaries in a program featuring symphonies by Mozart and Haydn and a concerto for two horns by Telemann.
Haydn’s Symphony No. 67 is a work of great inventiveness, jovial good humor and expressive lyricism; Georg Philipp Telemann’s Concerto for Two Horns is a virtuoso showcase for RSO principal hornist Sara Della Posta and colleague Robert Hoyle. The concert ends with a performance of Mozart’s immortal Symphony No. 35, the Haffner, one of his finest, and most popular, symphonies.
The concert is classical, in that the works come from the classical era; it can be called Contemporaries in that Mozart and Haydn were active at the same time within the same Hapsburg Empire; but it truly is Classical Contemporaries in that the sheer genius of Mozart’s music transcends time and place and touches mankind with a miraculous message that is timeless, always relevant and ever-new.
Tickets and more information are available at RidgefieldSymphony.org or 203-438-3889.
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