- Doors 3:30PM \ Show 4:00PM
- All Ages
TIMELESS Classics
The Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Geoffrey Gallegos, Music Director and Conductor, presents an afternoon of Timeless Classics by three master composers. The concert is bookended by the elegant Overture in the Italian Style in C Major, Franz Schubert’s enthusiastic homage to the opera overtures of Rossini, and Franz Joseph Haydn’s witty and ebullient Symphony No. 101 in D Major, subtitled “The Clock” given the “ticking” rhythm of the second movement. In between these classical delights, the CCCO winds, solo cello and bass are featured in Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade No. 2, Op. 44. While inspired by the wind serenades of Mozart and evoking the old-world atmosphere of musical performances at the castles of the Rococo period where the worlds of the aristocracy and the common folk merged, this remarkable work is, in its overall expression, quite unlike Dvořák’s original source of inspiration. While preserving Classical temperance, his Serenade is wholly Czech in character written in the Slavonic tradition with the lyricism and energy of the Slavonic Dances to come. The work represents a fine synthesis of the “retro” style and Dvořák’s masterful musical invention.
Don’t miss this musical treat of Timeless Classics!
