Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Free evening concerts performed in the beautiful, intimate, illuminated setting of Second Presbyterian Church by members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
. . . Lucky to be born? is a setting of a poem by Walt Whitman from Song of Myself for trumpet, percussion and narrator. In it, Whitman explores the brotherhood of man and celebrates the indomitable spirit of man. Prechtl also reflects on Whitman's regal and powerful poetry which is underlined through the powerful and lyrical voices that the trumpet and percussion evoke.
“I can play billiards, chess, dominoes and violin,” Moritz Moszkowski once boasted in a letter to a friend, before he added that he could imitate canary birds. Although he often played first violin in ensembles and even wrote a Violin Concerto, Moszkowski was more famous for his enormous success as a concert pianist, conductor, distinguished teacher, and composer, whose appealing piano music was found a century ago in nearly every parlor.
The Suite for Two Violins and Piano, Op. 71 was immediately hailed by critics as a spectacular and brilliant work and for many years it remained one of Moszkowski's best known works before sadly disappeari