Starting off with the boisterous Hoe Down from American composer Aaron Copland’s ballet Rodeo (1942), the CySO and maestro Bachmann proceed to jazz it up with excerpts from Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra (post-1956) and then take the music through the roof in the company of an… ox through Milhaud’s Le Boeuf sur le toit, based on popular Brazilian tunes and premiered in Paris in 1920. We then come down to earth however with Mozart’s Haffner symphony, written in the summer of 1782, when the composer – already preoccupied with establishing his name in Vienna, finishing his Abduction from the Seraglio, mending relations with his fiancé Constanze and relocating to another residence – received a letter from his father asking him to write a symphony for the Salzburg burgmaster. Mozart of course obliged, sent it to his father in Salzburg, and even he himself was amazed when, a year later, he conducted it for the first time at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Copland: Hoe Down (from Rodeo) for strings
Shostakovitch:Excerpted movements from Suite for Variety Orchestra (formerly: Suite for Jazz Orchestra no. 2)
Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le toit
A. Mozart: Haffner Symphonyno. 35, K. 385
Conductor: Jens Georg Bachmann
Supporters: Rialto Theatre, Lemesos Municipality, Pafos Municipality
Booking & Event Information
Lemesos: Thursday 7 December 2017
Rialto Theatre, 20:30
Lefkosia: Friday 8 December 2017
Pallas Theatre, Pafos Gate, 20:30
Larnaka: Saturday 9 December 2017
Municipal Theatre, 20:30
Ticket prices:
€12, €7 (18-26 yrs, pensioners), €5 (12-18 yrs), €3 (under 12)
Ticket presales:
Rialto Theatre (Andrea Drousioti 19, Lemesos 3040, 77777745)
- Online at rialto.com.cy
- Box Office, 4 weeks before the concert (Mon-Fri 10:00-13:00, 17:00-19:00, Sat 10:00-13:00) and 1,5 hrs before the concert
Pallas Theatre (Regenis and Arsinoes corner, Lefkosia 1010, 22 410181)
- Online at cyso.org.cy
- Box Office, Wed 16:00-19:00 and 2 hrs before the concert
Larnaka Municipal Theatre (Leonida Kioupi, Larnaka, 24 665794)
- Box Office, 2 weeks before the concert (Mon-Fri 10:00-13:00, 16:00-18:00, Sat 10:00-13:00) and 2 hrs before the concert
Information: 22 463144, www.cyso.org.cy
