Events on Sunday, September 1st The Serenade Orchestra
Stories on most of the events listed in the September 1 calendar at the right of this page were included in our August issue. The Serenade Orchestra was not. Now’s your chance to hear Haydn’s “Hunting” Quartet, Opus 1, No.1. Yes, his (we assume) very first string quartet. BUT - not with the instrumentation one would expect. “Yes the Opus 1 (1762-64) and Opus 9 (1769) quartets are scored basso in Haydn’s manuscript,” writes bassist John Feeney, “though most editions state violoncello for the sake of homogeneity - wouldn’t want to offer the chamber music world something different - would we? “Haydn wrote his early string quartets for double bass as the bottom voice, the Opus 2 quartets are scored for cello and for all quartets after the Opus 9 quartets. Haydn scored violoncello specifically as the bass instrument and the writing of the bass lines is clearly more cellistic. “Haydn composed at least 10 symphonies before 1762 and of those ten, 3 have double bass solos, which, similarly, editors changed to say “violoncello”- but have since, albeit it tacitly, restored the solos to the double bass. In fact the only bass solo that they never took away from us was the solo in Symphony no. 45 - The Farewell Symphony - and the only reason
this was never stolen from we bassists is that there was a cello and a bass solo which has to be played on the bass as the cellist could not leave the stage twice!!!” (In the farewell symphony, several of the musicians are given solos, after which they snuff out the candle on their music stand and take their leave. The cellist cannot play the bass solo and its own - and leave twice.) “Haydn also composed a double bass concerto some 20 years before his 1st cello concerto - sadly this work has been lost - but may still surface (the C major cello concerto wasn’t found until the 1960’s.),” Feeney concluded. Interestingly, the Hunting quartet does not include music for “hunting horns”, but the orchestra (Krista Bennion-Feeney, violin; Keats Dieffenbach, violin; David Cerutti, viola; and John Feeney) will be joined by RJ Kelley and Alexandra Cook playing “natural horns” (without valves) for horn concertos by Telemann. Music by Bartok and Brahms are also included in the program. The concert is on September 1 at 5:00pm at Pacem in Terris, 96 Covered Bridge Road in Warwick. Arrive early and visit the Frederick Franck Museum & Sculpture Garden to see his art and sculpture or just to meditate. Visit www.frederickfranck.org
September 1st Calendar Music - Blues................Willa McCarthy...............................The Falcon, Marlboro, 10am-2pm Holistic....................Psychic Fest ������������������������������ Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, 10am-5pm Festival.........25th Annual International Festival ����Newburgh Armory Unity Ctr., Noon-11pm Music - Jazz............................Liberty Jazz Festival ����������������������������������������� LaPolt Park, 6pm Parade................................. .Livingston Manor Labor Day Parade ���������������Main Street, 11am Theatre - Musical..........“The Marvelous Wonderettes” ����Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, 2pm Theatre - Musical.................“A Funny Thing...Forum” ��������Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, 2pm Theatre - Play................................ “The 39 Steps” �������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, 3pm Music - Klezmer..................Ljova & the Kontraband ���������������Dead End Cafe, Parksville, 3pm Music - Classical................The Serenade Orchestra �����������������Pacem in Terris, Warwick, 5pm Music - Band........West Point Band Labor Day Celebration �� Trophy Point Amphitheatre, 6pm Poetry..............................................Sonia Lynch ������������������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance, 7pm
“The Marvelous Wonderettes” are graduating High School at Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville, thru September 8
The stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 film, “The 39 Steps” with a cast of 4 actors playing over 140 characters at Forestburgh Playhouse ends on September 1
Hitchcock painting by L. Teague
“Ljova & the Kontraband” will perform Klezmer music September 1 at 3:00pm at the Parksville USA Music Festival
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Polka King Jimmy Sturr will perform on Labor Day, Sept. 2 at the Newburgh Armory Unity Center for the City’s 25th Annual International Festival, August 30September 2
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