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What’s NewCREATIVE CONDUCTING PROJECT:A New Concert Ending for Mozart’s
The combination of the two aspects of music-making, the creative and re-creative, has led me into an exciting area of musical endeavor.... I have discovered that much of classical music remains inaccessible to listeners for a number of reasons: A piece may call for a large number of instruments and be prohibitively expensive to perform; it may exist in a form for unspecified instruments - this is true of much of Early Music - or perhaps only in a version for keyboard. And there is another category of piece which is seemingly out of reach: orchestral music which forms part of a larger performance context, and which for some reason has remained un-extracted from this setting. A need can be felt for this kind of piece to be looked at again, in a new light. In this way it can be lifted out of its more exclusive surroundings, allowed to stand on its own, and made more readily available to audiences. This commissioned concert ending aims to facilitate a new version of Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail overture, one that meets the standards of authenticity of today’s symphony orchestras. It is my hope that this version may become a resource for musicians, audiences, and professional arts organizations. From: Karen Gorden, Ohio Arts Council Artist’s Project Description, 2004  |
On conductors extending the symphony repertoire*
*WDPR-FM, 2004
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Karen Gorden is represented by Gilson Concert Direction: gdc@yellowsprings.com |
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