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As planned, Juno comes to a gracious, natural end. This concert celebrates Juno’s five-year run, in residence at the Brattleboro Music Center. Thanks to all who helped along the way. Jean Sibelius Impromptu, after Op. 5, No. 5 and 6This Impromptu for Strings combines the fifth and sixth piano pieces from the Opus 5 set, in E minor and E major respectively, into a simple ABA song form. The music of the sixth Impromptu was also used in Sibelius’ melodrama from Svartsjukans nätter (Nights of Jealousy), where it accompanies the text, “if you once stood, shrouded in the misty haze, on the hilltop, in the spring morning’s embrace….” Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 92 in G Major, OxfordThis wonderfully imaginative symphony earned its persistent nickname after Haydn was awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford University, in 1791. Though he had composed this particular symphony in 1789, Haydn took it with him to Oxford because there was an expectation that he would share some of his recent work while at the University. At the beginning of 1791, Haydn had travelled to cosmopolitan London from the relatively isolated court of the Esterházy family outside of Vienna, on the Hungarian plains. In London, he discovered wildly enthusiastic audiences and enjoyed fame-inducing successes, all of which led to the honorary degree at Oxford, where Haydn enjoyed similar successes. It was just after these English triumphs that the influential impressario Johann Peter Salomon gave Haydn a commission for 12 symphonies. These twelve have since been called the “London” symphonies. Turns out, it was Salomon who likely also named Mozart’s last symphony, the “Jupiter.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C Major, Jupiter Mozart’s final symphony was completed in August 1788. A difficult time for Mozart, his public career and personal finances were faltering, and he had lost an infant daughter. Nevertheless, it was a remarkably productive year, and he was able to add thirty compositions to his catalogue. Don Giovanni, composed the previous year, received its second production in Vienna in May of 1788, and in June he began work on a trilogy of symphonies, completing them all in less than two months.
- Juno Orchestra
- Zon Eastes, Music Director
- Violin I
- Lucy Chapman, concertmaster
- Kathy Andrew
- Allyson Michal
- Isaac Krauss
- Veronika Kadlubkiewicz
- Hanna Zhdan
- Sarah Briggs
- Marcia Lehninger
- Violin II
- Dana Maiben
- David Horak
- Greg Diehl
- Andy Stein
- Marcia Lehninger
- Emily Packard
- Heather Sommerlad
- Viola
- Marcia Cassidy
- Lysander Jaffe
- Barbara Wright
- Liz Rose
- Marty Knieriem
- Cello
- Jennifer Morsches
- Alice Robbins
- Jacob Charkey
- Tim Merton
- Bass
- Peter Weitzner
- Nicholas Browne
- Paul Horak
- Flute
- Alison Hale
- Oboe
- Kirsten Hadden Lipkens
- Aaron Lakota
- Bassoon
- Rebecca Eldredge
- Joy Flemming
- Horn
- Jean Jeffries
- Christine Mortensen
- Trumpet
- Dan Farina
- Melissa Griffin
- Tympani
- Rocio Mora
- Production Coordinator
- Gay Foster
- Audio Production
- Billy Straus
- Video Production
- Austin Rice
- Angus Reid
- Production Partners
- Brattleboro Community TV
- Brattleboro Music Center
- Special Thanks to
- Mary Greene
- Gay Foster
- Carol Crompton
- The Juno Orchestra is in residence at The Brattleboro Music Center
- Performed June 10, 2022
- Persons Auditorium Marlboro, Vermont
