This Week in Classical Music-July 26, 2009

by: Randy Kinkel

July 26, 2009

Young Mozart

This Week in Classical Music-July 26, 2009

( Phoenix, AZ )
•Mozart pieces found
•NSO Twitters program notes
•Atomic Symphony by John Adams

\This Week in Classical Music 7/26/09

It’s This Week in Classical Music, an update on what’s happening in the classical music world; I’m Randy kinkel

The International Mozarteum Foundation, based in Salzburg, the home town of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reports that it has discovered two previously unknown piano pieces by Mozart. in an official statement, the foundation said, ““The Department of Research has identified two works, which have long been in the possession of the Foundation, as compositions of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,” Officials aren’t saying anything else about the pieces, just that they will be played for the first time ever August 2nd in a concert to be held at one of the houses where Mozart Lived.

The National Symphony orchestra will introduce real-time program notes on Twitter for their July 30th Concert at Wolf Trap. The Program notes, written by NSO conductor Emil de Cou, will be twittered to patrons during Beethoven’s Symphony #6; only patrons sitting on the lawn will be able to receive the tweets, as electronic devices are not allowed into the main house, Filene center. From a press release, “With this first ever in-time symphonic Twitter you can have the conductor as your personal guide through Beethoven's most colorful and atmospheric work,” explained Conductor Emil de Cou. “I have designed the tweets to go perfectly with ideas I have about the piece as I conduct it but also some interesting commentary to go along with the sights and sounds of Beethoven's day in the countryside: an adult musical pop-up book written for first timers and concert veterans alike." The messages will begin during intermission and provide facts about Beethoven’s life and work. Once the concert begins, the tweets will be sent at specific points in the score.
The World-premiere CD release of John Adams’ “Doctor Atomic Symphony, adapted from his opera of the same name which was due to drop last Tuesday has been delayed until this coming Tuesday due to a spelling error in the cover art. A printing error at Nonesuch records misspelled Conductor David Robertson’s name as “Roberston”. The CD recording, which is conducted by Robertson, also features Adams' 2001 "Guide to Strange Places," a 23-minute orchestral work that was inspired by an obscure French travel book on Provence. Both pieces were recorded live in concert by the St. Louis Symphony. For those who just can’t wait, a fan has posted a radio broadcast of the Symphony on YouTube.
For more on these and other items and events, go to the website, kbaq.org; be listening each week at this time for another update; and join me at noon every weekday for The Mozart Buffet, an hour of music by Mozart and his contemporaries. I’m Randy Kinkel, for “This Week in Classical Music”, on 89.5 KBAQ Phoenix, a service of Rio Salado College and Arizona State University.