Tickets are now on sale for this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival featuring the Music Director Louis Langrée, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Emerson String Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, and more.
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The 2013 Mostly Mozart Festival is unveiled! This summer’s Festival, running July 27 - August 24 in New York features more than 50 events spanning concerts, opera productions, pre-concert lectures and recitals, late-night performances, a film screening and premieres of new work. The Festival kicks off with a free performance led by Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra on July 27 at Avery Fisher Hall.
A major highlight of the 2013 Festival is the thematic focus on the rich musical lineage between Mozart and Beethoven, with several concerts throughout the Festival pairing music by both composers. In addition, the Budapest Festival Orchestra returns with a staged concert of Le nozze di Figaro, the first time Mozart’s great opera is presented in full at the Festival. International Contemporary Ensemble also returns with 10 concerts featuring 10 world premieres by 10 established and emerging composers, ranging from David Land Pauline Oliveros to Tyshawn Sorey and Phyllis Chen. Debuts this season include conductors Gianandrea Noseda, David Afkham and Steven Schick, among others. Chamber music features prominently, with performances by the Emerson, Calder and Leipzig quartets.
Single tickets go on sale April 29.
Click here to read the full press release about the Festival
Click here to visit the new Mostly Mozart website
Don’t forget to catch Mostly Mozart Festival Music Director Louis Langrée’s Berlin Philharmonic debut, leading Mozart’s Overture to La clemenza di Tito K. 62, Symphony No. 40, and Davide penitente, Cantata for two sopranos, tenor, choir and orchestra K. 46. Click here to watch the the Maestro’s debut via the Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall, today at 2pm (Eastern
Mostly Mozart Festival Music Director Louis Langrée makes his conducting debut at the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic this week, leading an all-Mozart program (what else?!). You can see it live via the Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall! Click here to see an exclusive dress rehearsal and video and tune in again to watch the performance on Friday at 2pm (Eastern)
(Photo of Louis Langrée by © 2012 Richard Termine, and photo of Joshua Bell by Eric Kabik)
Two fabulous Mostly Mozart Festival stories appeared in both The New York Times and Wall Street Journal today:
“As always, Mr. Bell’s tone was rich, warm and finely focused, and he moved easily between the score’s punchy passages and its lyrical flights,” wrote The New York Times’ Allan Kozinn about last Saturday’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performance in Avery Fisher Hall with conductor Louis Langrée and violinist Joshua Bell.
And, after a recent interview with Langrée, The Wall Street Journal’s Pia Catton said in her piece: “Indeed, Mr. Langrée’s success at this festival has been an integral rung in a career ladder that continues to stretch higher and higher.”
Tomorrow, the festival features the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with conductor Andrew Manze and pianist Stephen Hough. Mostly Mozart concludes this Saturday.
(Photo of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra by Marco Borggreve, photo of Pablo Heras-Casado by Miguel Peñalver and photo of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet by Paul Mitchell)
It was a jam-packed weekend for Mozart lovers at Lincoln Center!
Read what The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini had to say about the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with fortepiano solosit Kristian Bezuidenhout and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado last Thursday night, as well as the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and conductor Louis Langrée the following night (AND pianist Shai Wosner at A Little Night Music!) - all part of this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival.
Mostly Mozart runs through next Saturday.
(Photo by Richard Termine)
“This engaging concert, featuring the distinguished pianist Nelson Freire and the splendid tenor Lawrence Brownlee and conducted by the dynamic Louis Langrée, who is celebrating his 10th season as the festival’s music director, was a demonstration of how much Mostly Mozart has been revitalized in recent years,” wrote The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini about the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performance last Tuesday night at Avery Fisher Hall, which opened this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.
Mostly Mozart runs through August 25.
Bravo Maestro! Many congratulations to Mostly Mozart Music Director Louis Langrée for being named new Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Between Mostly Mozart (America’s oldest indoor summer music festival), the CSO (the fifth oldest orchestra in the U.S.), and Camerata Salzburg, you sure do have your baton hand full.
Read here for the full Cincinnati announcement.
We look forward to celebrating your 10 years with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra this summer!
(Photo by Richard Termine)
JUST RELEASED: The 2012 Mostly Mozart Festival has been announced!
Highlights include:
• Mostly Mozart Celebrates Louis Langrée’s 10 Years as Music Director with Nine Concerts by the Festival Orchestra including a FREE Preview on July 28
• Seven-Part Exploration of the Influence of Birdsong and Birds Includes:
- Three concerts by artists-in-residence ICE performing Messiaen with thematic premieres by Jonathan Harvey, Suzanne Farrin, Patricia Alessandrini, Marcos Balter, and Luca Francesconi;
- Pre-concert bird-watching tours through Central Park led by New York City Audubon;
- Winged Migration, the 2001 Academy Award-nominated documentary;
- US premiere of The Murder of Crows, a sound installation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, presented by Park Avenue Armory
• Mark Morris Dance Group Returns with Mark Morris Conducting His Dido and Aeneas Featuring Mezzo-Soprano Stephanie Blythe
• A 12-Part Focus on the Music of Franz Schubert
(Read the entire press release here.)
With the closing night canceled due to the shutdown of New York’s mass transportation system, the Mostly Mozart Festival ended on August 26 in front of a packed Avery Fisher Hall. Have a look at some photos from a memorable night with Louis Langrée, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and soloists Julia Lezhneva, Morris Robinson, Joseph Kaiser and Kelley O’Connor!
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