San Antonio Symphoy Celebrates A Genius of Classical Music with Annual Mozart Festival
(San Antonio, TX) Celebrating the inventive genius and inspiring legacy of Mozart, the San Antonio Symphony presents its 2017 Mozart Festival, running January 6 thru March 2, 2017. Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Music Director for the Symphony, continues his remarkable composer-focused festivals with the greatest genius of classical music—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In just 35 years, Mozart composed over 600 works. He wrote his first symphony when he was eight years old and composed some of the greatest operas, symphonies, and chamber music the world has ever known.
With 20 concerts in and around San Antonio, the Mozart Festival features Symphony performances at the San Fernando Cathedral and the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to these performances, Mozart fans will also be treated to concerts by the San Antonio Chamber Choir, San Antonio Chamber Music Society, YOSA (Youth Orchestra San Antonio), Soli Chamber Ensemble, UTSA Department of Music, Musical Offerings, Olmos Ensemble, San Antonio Choral Society, Musical Bridges Around the World, and more. For a complete listing of all Mozart Festival concerts and events visit www.sasymphony.org/mozart-festival.
Tickets are on sale now for all performances. Purchase on line at www.tobincenter.org and at www.sasymphony.org
Mozart Festival Concerts Featuring the San Antonio Symphony
MOZART’S 40TH SYMPHONY
January 6 & 7 @ 8:00 p.m.
H-E-B Performance Hall
Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers, John Silantien, director
Deanna Breiwick, soprano, Morgan Smith, baritone
This features Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 — called “a work of passion, violence, and grief.” His reverent Ave verum corpus joins the beautiful Fauré Requiem to complete this performance.
Mozart Ave verum corpus
Fauré Requiem, Op. 48
Mozart Symphony No. 40
MOZART AT THE CATHEDRAL
January 8 @ 7:00 p.m.
San Fernando Cathedral
Mozart “Hunt” String Quartet in B-flat major, No. 17, K.458
Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No. 5
TBD Piece TBD
MOZART & MENDELSSOHN
January 13 & 14 @ 8:00 p.m.
H-E-B Performance Hall
Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Kolja Blacher, conductor and violin
Kolja Blacher leads the orchestra in two Mozart works: the “Linz” and the “Prague” symphonies. Blacher performs the violin concerto by Mendelssohn between the two symphonies.
Mozart Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Mozart Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
MOZART AT THE CATHEDRAL
January 22, @ 7:00 p.m.
San Fernando Cathedral
Mozart Divertimento in D major, K. 136
Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No.5
Mozart String Quartet in C major, K. 465
MOZART & TCHAIKOVSKY
January 27 & 28 @ 8:00 p.m.
H-E-B Performance Hall
Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Julian Schwarz, cello
Mozart’s Posthorn Symphony shares the program with Hanson’s “Romantic” Symphony, along with Tchaikovsky’s beautiful and elegantly charming Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra.
Mozart Posthorn Symphony
Hanson Symphony No. 2, “Romantic”
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Sponsored by The Park Foundation
MOZART PIANO CONCERTI
February 3 & 4 @ 8:00 p.m.
H-E-B Performance Hall
Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Eric Gratz, leader
Jeremy Denk, piano
Jeremy Denk, one of America’s foremost pianists, takes the stage, playing not one, but two Mozart piano concertos that are now considered some of Mozart’s greatest compositions.
Rossini Sonata No. 3 in C major
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 19
Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 2 in D major
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23
MOZART AT THE CATHEDRAL
February 5 @ 7:00 p.m.
San Fernando Cathedral
Mozart arr. Lloyd Conley Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Danzi Wind Quintet in G minor, Op. 56, No. 2
Mozart Serenade No. 12 for Winds in C minor, K. 388
MOZART NO. 39 & JUPITER
February 10 & 11 @ 8:00 p.m.
February 12 @ 2:00 p.m.
H-E-B Performance Hall
Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
The Symphony’s Mozart concerts come to a glorious close with Mozart’s final symphony, “Jupiter,” along with his 39th symphony, and his popular serenade, not published until decades after the composer’s death.
Mozart Serenade No. 13, “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
Mozart Symphony No. 39
Mozart Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
