{"id":21074,"date":"2023-04-23T17:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21074"},"modified":"2023-04-23T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T21:29:15","slug":"kw-symphonys-elegance-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/kw-symphonys-elegance-and-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"KW Symphony\u2019s &#8220;Elegance and Innovation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the KW Symphony\u2019s concert &#8220;Elegance and Innovation.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart &#8212; Symphony No 31 &#8220;Paris&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Riho Esko Maimets &#8212; Ecdysis: Double Concerto for Piccolo, Harp, and Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>Ricard Strauss &#8212; Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The orchestra was conducted by Alexander Shelley, the National Arts Centre Orchestra\u2019s music director. He conducted the Mozart and Strauss without a score. He also introduced the concert with some fun context for the pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The Maimets piece was brand new. Unlike the other beautiful pieces, this was more of an interesting experience &#8212; think Goldsmith&#8217;s &#8220;Planet of the Apes&#8221; and you&#8217;ll be in the right neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The piccolo soloist was Kali Maimets and the harp soloist was Lori Gemmell.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know any of these pieces, but I knew the Mozart would be full of Mozartian goodness. He wrote this symphony when he was 22 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The audience wasn&#8217;t full, but it was appreciative of the performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the KW Symphony\u2019s concert &#8220;Elegance and Innovation.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart &#8212; Symphony No 31 &#8220;Paris&#8221; Riho Esko Maimets &#8212; Ecdysis: Double Concerto for Piccolo, Harp, and Orchestra Ricard Strauss &#8212; Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme The orchestra was conducted by Alexander Shelley, the National Arts Centre Orchestra\u2019s music director. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[91,13,5],"class_list":["post-21074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-of-music","tag-classical","tag-music","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21078,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074\/revisions\/21078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}