05/03/2022
This is the all-star group of wind players from all over who will be performing. Please visit the Beethoven Festival NEW website at https://www.BeetFestUt.org. Tickets are available through the ParkCityInstitute.org website at this link: https://tickets.parkcity.institute/TheatreMan.../1/online...
The All-Star SONOLUMINA WIND ENSEMBLE will present masterpieces of works for winds by Jacques Ibert, Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Beethoven Festival has gathered this sterling roster of eight fine wind players to form the Sonolumina Wind Ensemble. The ensemble will treat our audience to three works in varying combinations.
The "Five Pieces" for Trio by Jacques Ibert is a collection of light, jaunty and dreamy works for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, perfect for a Sunday afternoon.
The Beethoven Sextet for Two Clarinets, Two French Horns, and Two Bassoons - a completely unique combination of wind instruments - was composed in Bonn when Beethoven was a young man and is filled with youthful exuberance. Operatic in nature, this treasure in the chamber music repertoire features an exquisite slow movement featuring a beautiful dialogue between bassoon and clarinet. The final movement is like the grand finale of this fireworks show of a work.
The final work is an "all hands on deck" for the full excellent group of eight wind players: Mozart's "Woodwind Serenade for Two Oboes, Two Clarinets, Two French Horns, and two Bassoons. During Mozart's time it was popular to write woodwind works to be performed outdoors by wind ensembles, and the style was taken to a new height in this wonderful composition considered one of the greatest wind ensemble works Mozart created.
The artists in the group photo are (left to right) clarinetists Lee Livengood and Russell Harlow, horn players Edmund Rollett and Julie Pilant and bassoonists Ronn Hall and Leon Chodos and the group also includes oboe players Brooks Fisher and Karen Hastings.
The next concert in the Park City series will be May 22, Sunday at 3PM, then the series starts up again in the summer in July in conjunction with the 39th year of the Beethoven Festival.