The Mercury Orchestra, national winner of
the American Prize for Orchestral Performance,
performs three striking works by giants
of the classical music canon. Don’t miss
the opportunity to be surprised once more
by the melodic twists and harmonic turns
in these hallmarks of each master’s style.
This performance features 19-year-old pianist
Howard Tin Pui Tang, winner of the 2015
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Concerto
Competition. Channing Yu conducts.
Saturday, August 15, 2015, at 8:00
pm, at the First Church Cambridge,
11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, 02138.
PROGRAM
Mozart: Overture to
Die Zauberflöte
(The Magic Flute)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat
Major
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Approximate running time: 1 hour 40
minutes, including one intermission
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Howard
Tin Pui Tang débuts with Mercury Orchestra
Howard Tin
Pui Tang
1st place winner,
Concerto Competition
The 24th Annual Music Festival at Walnut
Hill
Howard Tang Tin Pui, currently studying
with Mary Wu in The Hong Kong Academy for
Performing Arts under a full scholarship
by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools
of Music , is a regular performer in local
masterclasses, including ABRSM 60th anniversary
masterclass, and that by Gabriel Kwok, Eleanor
Wong, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2013, Howard was selected as one of the
16 candidates world wide to join the musical
festival in Philadelphia Young Pianists’
Academy received lessons from Sergei Babayan
, Charles Abramovic , Ching-yun Hu and Meng-Chieh
Liu.
Howard received many prizes including the
piano competitions organized by the Hong
Kong School Music Festival And Speech Association,
and the Hong Kong Generation Next Arts competition.
Three
is an important number in Freemasonry. That
may also explain the key signature of E-flat,
which calls for three flats.
Read more about Mozart and the Overture
to
The Magic Flute...
The
important Viennese critic Edward Hanslick
pronounced it Brahms’s “most perfect” symphony.
The first theme descends immediately from
the peak of the opening fanfare in the minor.
It is similar to a melody in the first movement
of Robert Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony. Whether
Brahms was honoring the man who championed
him and became his friend or was thinking
of the Rhine River is uncertain.
Read more about Brahms and his Third Symphony...
“Led
by the graceful, competent and deeply committed
Channing Yu, they play with passion, control,
and just plain chops...”
Read Elisa Birdseye’s review of the
most recent Mercury Orchestra performance
in the
Boston Musical Intelligencer...
The national first place winner in
the 2010 American Prize for Orchestral Performance,
the Mercury Orchestra has a mission to bring
great works of the symphony orchestra repertoire
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in live performances
of the highest quality; to bring amateur
orchestral musicians together to play challenging
repertoire; and to educate new audiences
about the rich traditions of classical music.
http://www.mercuryorchestra.org
(Photos: Jason Barnett/Mercury Orchestra;
Kevin Jang)
