\u201cWhat might seem the most innocuous music is often the most avant-garde,\u201d writes Ted Gordon on Gunther Schuller\u2019s 1962 oeuvre \u201cJourney into Jazz,\u201d which Chamber Orchestra First Editions (COFE) will perform on Oct. 6 at Lang Concert Hall. Former Congressman and longtime LGBT rights advocate Barney Frank will narrate the piece, a story reminiscent of Peter and the Wolf with an experimental twist: third-stream jazz, or a blend of classical and jazz music. Additionally, NYC-based drummer and composer Gabriel Globus-Hoenich will add a brand-new piece to the COFE program, \u201cShattered Stones,\u201d which will accompany two of Mozart\u2019s early works, the Piano Concerto No. 21 and Symphony No. 29.<\/p>\n
Mozart composed Symphony No. 29 at only 18 years old, while still living in Salzburg, Austria. According to Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music James Freeman, founder and Musical Director of COFE, Mozart may have paired the intimate feel of the piece with a striking finale in order to convince his father and even himself that he was talented enough to continue his career in Vienna.\u201cIt\u2019s unlike any symphony that he had written up until this time,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cTo see him suddenly produce a piece like the symphony that we\u2019ll see at the end of the concert is sort of amazing. It just comes out of the blue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 414 \u00a0and \u00a0Symphony No. 29 were written in A major, a key that imparts on them a \u201clyrical, singing quality,\u201d according to Professor Andrew Hauze, who will be featured as soloist on the Concerto. \u00a0Mozart composed the Concerto just after he had arrived in Vienna at last, eight years after he wrote Symphony No. 29.<\/p>\n
But what\u2019s Congressman Barney Frank doing at a Mozart performance? After deciding to feature \u201cJourney into Jazz,\u201d Freeman asked himself, \u201cWho would be an interesting narrator for this piece, a person who would perhaps\u2014I hope\u2014bring a different kind of audience to our concerts, a different kind of audience than has ever come before?\u201d<\/p>\n
Frank will also participate alongside Freeman and Hauze in a pre-show discussion at 7:30 P.M. before the 8 P.M. concert. Rehearsals for the show will be open to members of the Swarthmore community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say all of these pieces [in the COFE program] share a kind of vibrancy and energy, and to have Congressman Frank involved\u2026 for one thing, I never imagined that I would be the soloist on a program where he\u2019s also the soloist,\u201d Hauze said.<\/p>\n
Freeman feels that this season\u2019s COFE program will provide something to intrigue everyone, from connoisseurs of classical to jazz junkies to all Swarthmore students and staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want people to experience recent classical new music, because I think people tend to be a little afraid of it as being too hard for them to understand, but\u2019s it not,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cI hope they\u2019ll hear the Mozart pieces and say, \u2018Wow! I didn’t know Mozart was that interesting,\u2019 because I think every note that guy wrote was interesting.”<\/p>\n
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