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Chasm
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Username: Chasm
Post Number: 334
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 7:02 pm: | 
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CHANGE OF VENUE:
Maplewood Middle School
7:30PM April 5th 2006 Mozart Requiem
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Strings
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Username: Blue_eyes
Post Number: 839
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 9:24 pm: |
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Who is performing it? |
Joe R.
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Username: Ragnatela
Post Number: 357
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 10:02 pm: |
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Great piece. |
AGD4
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Username: Agd4
Post Number: 59
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 11:28 pm: |
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Please attend this fabulous CHS event, presented at Maplewood Middle School's auditorium, celebrating the talents of our CHS Music Students an honoring Mozart:
The Mozart Requiem
Presented by the
Columbia High School
Chamber Orchestra & Choir
In honor of the 250th Anniversary of Mozart's Birth
Wednesday, April 5th, 7:30pm (Free Admission)
Dr. James S. Imhoff
Director
Ms. Cheryl Tedesco
Strings
Mr. Peter Bauer
Winds
Daniel Baer
Rehearsal Accompanist
Music for voices, strings, and winds
by W. A. Mozart and Bela Bartok
Maplewood Middle School
7 Burnet Street
Maplewood NJ
SOLOISTS:
Kristen Conrad
Sara Donatelli
Rebecca Adelson
Julia Fendler
Larissa Wohl
Evan Johnston
Matthew Lieberman
Orren Saltzman
Daniel Baer
rehearsal accompanist
In addition to the Requiem, the strings of the Chamber Orchestra will
perform music by Mozart and Bartok, directed by Ms. Cheryl Tedesco. The
wind players for the orchestra have been prepared by Mr. Peter Bauer.
This concert could not have been presented without their leadership. We
thank Mrs. Margaret Zufall Roberts, former director of the orchestra,
for her planning and assistance in this endeavor. Months of rehearsal
and drill went into the choral parts, with senior Daniel Baer at the
piano accompanying, assisting, and supporting the singers.
We also thank the staff and administration of Maplewood Middle School
for their assistance in hosting the concert while renovations continue
at the high school.
The students of Columbia High School enjoy a tradition of excellence in
the performing arts. Theater and dance as well as music have been an
important part of the academic experience for the young adults of
Maplewood and South Orange. Dr. James S. Imhoff, CHS Director of Choral
Activities, has been on the faculty of the University of Oregon, the
Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam, and Montclair State. He has served
as a guest conductor and clinician in numerous venues including
Seattle, Toronto, and Syracuse, and has presented research papers in
Vienna, Austria and Bergen, Norway. Dr. Imhoff is extremely proud of
the dedication, skill, and love of music demonstrated by the marvelous
students of this community and of Columbia High School.
In a collection of the letters of Mozart by Hans Mersmann, the final
entry in a listing of events in Mozart’s life reads:
1791 The Requiem composed but not completed
The thought that a work of such power and drama can be “incomplete” has
been intolerable to musicians over the past 250 years. Any performance
of this work must stand as a monumental work of art, including the
first performance of the completed fragments a few days after Mozart’s
death, the first performance as completed by Mozart’s student Sussmayr
in 1792, and our performance tonight, April 5, 2006. The details of
this work are shrouded in mystery and legend, including one scenario
that would have the dying composer singing through the alto part with
his friends, another that has a rival composer, Salieri, poisoning
Mozart and stealing the score, and another, more realistic, that has
his frantic and impoverished wife Costanze struggling to get the score
completed so she could collect the commission. The version we present
tonight is based on the score published in 1799 by Breitkopf & Hartel
of Weisbaden. It includes passages in the master’s own hand as well as
completions and some original music by Sussmayr. We have also chosen
some movements at the expense of others due to limitations in rehearsal
time, orchestration, balance, and logistics. But you will hear—and we
sincerely hope be moved by—music of a sublime and profound nature.
www.CHSMPA.org |
Janet
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Username: Janetcopeland
Post Number: 21
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 8:41 am: |
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If you weren't there last night, you missed a fantastic performance! Kudos to all the talented students and dedicated music department faculty for a very enjoyable evening. I only wish that more of the community could witness what great things come out of CHS. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13463
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 3:11 pm: |
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I'm a semi-professional singer and have sung stuff like this almost all my life. My wife is a professional singer and has done this work. We are rehearsing to do our own performance with Harmonium next month.
All that is to say that I have high standards for my kids, and last night, the chorus and orchestra far exceeded them. My wife and I were blown back in our seats. As my younger daughter would say, I'm not even kidding.
This is Dr. Imhoff's fourth year here, and this is the first "great work" he has done. I believe his other concerts have been wide mixtures of songs. I think he has risen the bar considerably by pulling this off.
They didn't do the entire requiem but the majority. And they did it with only about 30 singers. Very ambitious.
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finnegan
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Username: Finnegan
Post Number: 320
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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I took my middle schooler becuse I wanted him to see what awaits him with the CHS music program. It was just an awesome performance from everyone.
The soloists were fabulous, the orchestra did a great job with hard music and the chorus sounded golden. I knew none of the performers personally but enjoyed them all immensely.
I adore the Requiem and listen to it often and was just a little concerned beforehand that I wouldn't be enthralled to hear it from high schoolers when I regularly have the Muti recording playing in my head. Foolish to worry though, I just sat there with tears running down my cheeks in awe at the sheer beauty of the performance.
What an out standing performance and group of young musicians. A great big THANK YOU to all who worked on and contributed to this event. |
Chasm
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Username: Chasm
Post Number: 335
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 7, 2006 - 10:46 pm: |
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I agree the concert was wonderful. Kudos to Dr. Imhoff, especially since he is retiring this year. He went out with a bang! |
C Bataille
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Username: Nakaille
Post Number: 2535
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 8, 2006 - 3:53 pm: |
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It will be broadcast on CCN tonight at 10 p.m. |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5316
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Saturday, April 8, 2006 - 8:56 pm: |
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Ms. Bataille - Thanks for the tip.
Roll Tape! |
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