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Carmel Bach Festival - West Side Story and Magic Flute

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 from 07:30pm to 09:00pm

Carmel Bach Festival

Sunset Center Theater

San Carlos Street at Ninth Avenue

Carmel by the Sea, CA, 93921

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West Side Story and Magic Flute
Dreams & Idylls

Grete Pedersen, conductor
Clara Rottsolk, soprano
Andrew Staples, tenor
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
Festival Orchestra

One of the most powerful and beautiful songs ever written, “Somewhere” from West Side Story, sets the tone of the Tuesday night concert with messages of love and hope for the future.

Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a self-described lyric rhapsody that is lush and rich in texture, idyllic, and full of nostalgia. He paints a musical picture that is evocative and dreamy from the perspective of a small boy who, at times, seems to be an adult reminiscing about his childhood.

Haydn’s Symphony 49 derives from his Sturm und Drang period. The slow movements are dark and somber, but the fast movements show driven and relentless energy.

The arias from Mozart’s Magic Flute are light-hearted with musical-textual playfulness, bringing full circle the messages of overcoming trials, love, and hope for the future. “Somehow, Someday…there’s a place for us.”

Program:

“Somewhere” from West Side Story (3 minutes) | LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990)

Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24 (16 minutes) | SAMUEL BARBER (1910-1981)

Symphony No. 49, Hob. I:49, F minor, “La Passione” (24 minutes) | FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)

I. Adagio

II. Allegro di molto

III. Menuet

IV. Presto

Arias from Die Zauberflote (11 minutes) | WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)

No. 3 Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön

No. 20 Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen wünscht Papageno sich

No. 21 Pa- pa- pa-

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