This week on “Sweetness and Light,” musicians step out to strut their stuff in a collection of lighter works for solo instrument and orchestra.
Some of the pieces will be well-known, some perhaps not. We’ll enjoy a trumpet overture derived from a film score by Franz Waxman, a scherzo by the swashbuckling pianist and composer Henry Charles Litolff, a polka for bassoon and orchestra evocative of a grumpy old bear by Julius Fučík, and more.
A highlight will surely be a cello concerto by Arthur Sullivan, later of Gilbert & Sullivan fame, that was destroyed by fire but reconstructed decades later, largely from memory, by Sir Charles Mackerras.
One is the loneliest number, as the old song goes. So put your hands together for soloists stepping into the “light music” spotlight, on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX Classical Oregon!
Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:
https://kwax.uoregon.edu/
Light Music Soloists Step into the Spotlight on “Sweetness and Light”
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5 responses to “Light Music Soloists Step into the Spotlight on “Sweetness and Light””
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How did Charles Mackerras reconstruct something from Sullivan’s memory? I’m intrigued!
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Julian Grant Seriously? Of all my crimes against the language, you’re going to crucify me on a little (non-existent) ambiguity? What a saucebox!
However, if clarification truly be necessary, here’s the relevant portion of my script.
“At the age of 24, [Sullivan] composed a Cello Concerto for Alfredo Piatti. The work was never published. It was revived only a couple of times, the last time in 1953, with Charles Mackerras conducting. In 1964, the only manuscript and all the orchestral material were destroyed in a fire. In a remarkable feat of memory, Mackerras was able to reconstruct the work in the 1980s, drawing on only two surviving copies of the solo cello part, with an indication of a bass line and some orchestral cues.”
Hope this helps. 😘
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Classic Ross Amico, now THAT’S interesting. Why didn’t you say so! I was thinking was Charles M channeling Sir Arthur’s essence à la Rosemary Brown…….
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Thank goodness for your sense of humor !.!.!
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SW Paul Mack I would never make it through another day without it.
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