National Symphony Orchestra: Mozart Festival

• Jun 21 - 23, 2001
• Concert Hall
• 2 hrs.
• $17.00 - $34.00

About the Program

About the Program

6:00 - 6:50 p.m.
Prelude Concert TBA (NSO musicians)
Millennium Stage
FREE
HAYDN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 50, No. 1
Finale: Vivace assai

MOZART String Quartet in D major, K. 499 (ôHoffmeisterö)
Allegretto
Menuetto: Allegretto
Adagio
Allegro

7:00 p.m.
National Symphony Orchestra
Concert Hall
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Christopher Hogwood, conducting
Andreas Haefliger, piano
MOZART Rondo In D major, K. 485 (for piano solo)
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
Intermission
MOZART Rondo in F major, K. 494 (for piano solo)
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491

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Friday, June 22, 2001

6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
18th century dance lessons
"The Presentational Minuet," New York Baroque Dance Company
(accompanist TBA)
Grand Foyer - Millennium Stage
FREE
The tradition of honoring a king or queen or an important personage through the dance goes back to the Renaissance. The letters of the name of the person being honored would be used as the geometryfor the dance figures. This tradition continues today upon our footbal fields with the marching bands as they spell out the name of the college in their formations. In
honor of the Mozart Festival, the public will spell MOZART in their minuet figures in the Grand Foyer of the Kennedy Center. The New York Baroque Dance Company will demonstrate an English 18th century formal presentational minuet and then lead the public in dancing the presentational minuet honoring Mozart. In keeping with Mozart's love of improvisation, the public will be taught three variations of the minuet step and will be asked to spontaneously insert the variation of their choosing at any time during the dance.

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8:30 p.m.
National Symphony Orchestra
Concert Hall
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Christopher Hogwood, conducting
Elisabeth Adkins, violin
Lisa-Beth Lambert, violin
Daniel Foster, viola
David Hardy, cello
Rachel Young, cello
Lisa Emenheiser Logan, piano
Lambert Orkis, piano
MOZART Piano Trio in B-flat major, K. 502
MOZART Piano Sonata in F major (for Four-Hands) K.497
Intermission
MOZART Twelve Variations in B-flat major, K. 500
MOZART Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493

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Saturday, June 23, 2001

12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
Continuity and Revolution circa. 1786, Damie Stillman
ERC
FREE

1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
"Seventeen Eighty Six: The Year That Was," Neal Zaslaw
ERC
FREE
Mozart's activities were so different from those of musicians nowadays that some thought is needed to understand them. Using historical documents and Mozart's music for our time machine, we travel to Vienna 215 years ago in order to follow Mozart on his rounds of noble palaces, middle-class homes, theaters, churches, Masonic lodges, taverns, and music publishers and copyists.

2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
"Power, Spectacle and the Sciences: Central European Court Culture," Andre Wakefield
ERC
FREE

3:00 - 3:45 p.m.
"A Slice of Dance from 1786," Catherine Turocy
ERC
FREE

4:00 -4:45 p.m.
"Dear God That I Shall Not Become Sick: Sickness and Health in Mozart's Vienna," Mary Lindemann
ERC
FREE

5:00 - 5:45 p.m.
"The Mozart Aura," Neal Zaslaw
ERC
FREE
The basic facts of Mozart's life and works have long been known and are widely available. Why, then, do people persist in believing old myths about him and creating new ones? A highly informal discussion of the ways in which we project our beliefs and desires onto a favorite cultural icon.

6:00 - 6:50 p.m.
18th century dance lessons - "The Presentational Minuet," New York Baroque Dance Company
(accompanist TBA)
Grand Foyer - Millennium Stage
FREE
See June 22

7:00 - 7:45 p.m.
"A Gastronomic Grand Tour of the Eighteenth Century," Donald Daly
ERC
FREE
Take a gastronomic grand tour of the eighteenth century, with stops in England, France, Italy and the Colonies Find out what the Reverend Woodforde of England ate for dinner, why Hannah Glasse states in her cookbook, "First catch your hareà" or how Italians ate their spaghetti. This entertaining and informative lecture focuses on the culinary scene
of in the eighteenth century from agriculture to markets, kitchen equipment, cookbooks and cookbook authors, and dining customs from the humble cottages of the workers to grand palaces and estates.

8:30 p.m.
National Symphony Orchestra
Concert Hall
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Christopher Hogwood, conducting
Andreas Haefliger, piano
MOZART Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro," K.492
MOZART Pinao Concerto NO. 25 in C major, K. 503
INTERMISSION
MOZART Overture to "The Impresario," K. 486
MOZART Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 "Prague"

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