Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  Oakland

Start Date:

  5/4/2025

End Date:

  5/4/2025

Start Time:

  4:00 PM

End Time:

  5:30 PM

Event Info: 

  The Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, and 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, with solo cello and bass are featured in Antonin Dvorak'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 Dvorak'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 Dvorak's masterful musical invention.

http://www.contracostachamberorchestra.org

Location:

  Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church

Room:

Address:

  1801 Lacassie Ave

Phone:

  415-794-1269

City:

  Walnut Creek

State/Province:

  CA