WEEK 5 – DVORAK’S PASSIONS

WEEK 5 – DVORAK’S PASSIONS

WEEK FIVE - DVORAK'S PASSIONS WEEK FIVEDVORAK’S PASSIONS Antonin Dvorak wrote music with consistent style, outstanding craftsmanship, beautiful melodies, rhythmic vitality and uncommon charm. Successful and well-respected for most of his adult life, he seemed...
WEEK 4 – MOZARTIANA

WEEK 4 – MOZARTIANA

WEEK FOUR- MOZARTIANA WEEK FOURMOZARTIANA When Mozart decided to add a 2nd viola to the string quartet form, he opened up new worlds of expression, harmonic possibilities and grandiose scope. His String Quintet in C Major gloriously combines an exhilarating spirit...
WEEK 3 – BEETHOVEN’S SERIOSO

WEEK 3 – BEETHOVEN’S SERIOSO

WEEK THREE - BEETHOVEN'S SERIOSO WEEK THREEBEETHOVEN’S SERIOSO It has been said that Beethoven’s arrival in Vienna nearly destroyed the confidence of poor Johannes Hummel. Hummel was also a composer-pianist and fellow student of Josef Haydn. However, the...
WEEK 2 – SUMMER DREAMS

WEEK 2 – SUMMER DREAMS

WEEK TWO - SUMMER DREAMS WEEK TWOSUMMER DREAMS Johannes Brahms spent some of the happiest and most prolific times of his life in a house he rented just outside of Baden Baden, during the summer months. Smitten with its natural beauty, he enthusiastically composed some...
WEEK 1 – TELEMANN’S GARDEN

WEEK 1 – TELEMANN’S GARDEN

WEEK ONE - TELEMANN'S GARDEN WEEK ONETELEMANN’S GARDEN “While music is my field and plow, and serves to give me many of my keenest pleasures, I have lately attached myself to a new suitor, namely the love of flowers”. Thus wrote the great German...