Name: Les Délices: Mozart Octets
Start: 2024-10-04T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-04T20:45:00-04:00
Location: First Community Church

$Les D\u00e9lices: Mozart Octets$

In the time of Mozart, a Harmonie was a group of wind players who provided outdoor entertainment for their aristocratic patrons. Much loved by the public, harmoniemusik for these ensembles often included arrangements of popular opera arias.
Les Délices artistic director Debra Nagy has pulled together North America’s finest period-instrument woodwind players for an all-Mozart program that includes selections from The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni plus Mozart’s transcendent Serenade in C minor K388.
On the project Debra Nagy writes: "This is a total bucket-list program for me. It’s not easy (or cheap!) to assemble a woodwind team of this quality; it’s usually bigger-budget organizations that hire this many wind players so that they can perform symphonic repertoire. As a result, I’ve never had the opportunity to perform woodwind octets in a professional setting. The music is sublime and the sound of the ensemble is gorgeous – powerful yet light and transparent. This will be a truly memorable concert!”