Robert Schumann Born: June 8, 1810, Zwickau, Germany Died: July 29, 1856, Endenich, Germany Schumann was one of the quintessential artists of music’s Romantic era. Encouraged in a wide range of studies by his writer/publisher father, Schumann became a law student at...
RCO Music Director candidate, Donato Cabrera, wrote the program notes for the first RCO concert of the 2019-20 season, which he will conduct on October 19th and 20th, 2019 at Nightingale Concert Hall, UNR. Please visit the links below… Donato’s Blog Wagner...
Program Notes for March 30 & 31, 2019 Concerts By Chris Morrison Ludwig van Beethoven Born: December 16, 1770, Bonn, Germany Died: March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria One short biographical sketch on Beethoven begins “The events of Beethoven’s life are the...
Program Notes February 16 and 17, 2019 By Chris Morrison Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Richard Strauss Franz Schubert Born: January 31, 1797, Vienna, Austria Died: November 19, 1828, Vienna, Austria Franz Schubert is one of the best-loved and most...
A Viennese New Year Tuesday, January 1, 2019 at 2:00PM Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Program Notes by Chris Morrison Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K. 136 (1772, 13 minutes) This Divertimento is one of three works, K. 136-138, sometimes referred to as the...
Piano Showcase Monday, December 31, 2018 at 3:00PM UNR Nightingale Concert Hall Program Notes by Chris Morrison Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a youth when he wrote, for himself and his sister Nannerl, the first three of his sonatas for piano four-hands. There is...
New Year’s Night Monday, December 31, 2018 at 7:00 PM UNR Nightingale Concert Hall Program Notes by Chris Morrison Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 (1786, 4 minutes) In his first collaboration with his great librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart...
Fantasy and Flair Sunday, December 30, 2018 at 3:00PM UNR Nightingale Concert Hall Program Notes by Chris Morrison The Trio No. 39 in G major, written toward the end of Franz Josef Haydn’s second trip to England in 1794-5, was one of a set of three trios that...
Undiscovered Grieg Sunday, December 30, 2018 at 7:00PM UNR Nightingale Concert Hall Clarke: Piano Trio in E-flat minor (1921, 25 minutes) Program Notes by Chris Morrison Composer and violist Rebecca Clarke was the first female member of the Queen’s Hall Orchestra, and...
Centennial Celebrations Saturday, December 29, 2018 at 3:00PM South Reno United Methodist Church Program Notes by Chris Morrison Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66 (1845, 30 minutes) Dedicated to composer Louis Spohr, the Trio in C minor was...
