Heights Chamber Orchestra Concert

Travis Jürgens. guest conductor, won 2nd Prize and the President of the Jury Award at the Bucharest Music Institute International Conducting Competition. He has conducted the Rochester Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, and Denver Philharmonic, among others. During his tenure with the Philharmonia of Kansas City, Jürgens raised the artistic level of the orchestra and helped to increase the audience base, which led to the organization's first sold-out concert. He also conducted many world premieres and organized a video shoot with ESPN for a 2011 Halloween Special that was aired on Monday Night Football. Richard King, cello, joined The Cleveland Orchestra in 1988 at age twenty as associate principal horn. He served as principal horn, 1997-2015, and now sits as a section member. Mr. King has been featured many times as soloist with the Orchestra, including works by Britten, Haydn, and Mozart. A native of Long Island, New York, Richard King began playing the horn at the age of nine. He then attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Mr. King is a member of the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music and of the Kent/Blossom Music Festival professional training program. Concert selections: Diane Wittry, after the rain The inspiration for this piece “after the rain” came from sitting outside after a rainstorm when the raindrops were still wet on the trees. In those quiet moments, one can hear the gentle drop of the water as it hit a trash can lid or some other surface. Occasionally the wind blows and the droplets splatter creating interesting rhythms. The birds call back and forth answering each other, and the cicadas echo softly with their high-pitched drone. As we sit enjoying nature, our mind wanders peacefully. As the droplets drip quietly around us, the sun slowly comes out from behind the clouds, and we feel that all is right with the world. Christopher Ball, Horn Concerto, is the most recent of Ball's five concertos for winds. It is unique in that although others have written music of this sort, no one has ever written a pastoral horn concerto. It begins full-voiced and lively (Allegro energetic) and continues with some lovely counterpoint and flowing melodies for the horn. Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417, also known as ‘Tragic’ is a symphony completed in April 1816 when Schubert was 19 years old, a year after his Third Symphony However, it was not premiered until November 19, 1849, in Leipzig, more than two decades after Schubert's death. The symphony was called the Tragic by its composer. Schubert added the title Tragic to his autograph manuscript sometime after the work was completed It is not known why. It can be noted, however, that the symphony is one of only two he wrote (the Unfinished Symphony is the other) in a minor key.

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