In its ‘Devil May Care’ concert, Orchestra Seattle & Seattle Chamber Singers (OSSCS) will perform works at the First Free Methodist Church from composers at particularly happy times in their lives. The concert takes place on Sunday, May 22nd starting at 3p.
Edward Elgar’s most successful work, as well as one of his personal favorites, is his Serenade for Strings in E-minor – which his original publisher declared ‘practically unsaleable’. A second piece scheduled is Elgar’s ‘From the Bavarian Highlands,’ which depicts the picturesque countryside he and his wife visited while on a vacation together. For this piece, Elgar’s wife wrote the words and he the music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart led a troubled and too-brief life, but in Vienna, over a particularly happy and productive six months, he composed The Marriage of Figaro and three of his most brilliant piano concertos. OSSCS Music Director Clinton Smith will lead the OSSCS in one of those concertos, as he conducts from behind his keyboard.
Purchase tickets to this joyful concert through Brown Paper Tickets, and hear these works by artists enjoying their lives – even if just for a moment.