LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: MOSTLY MOZART WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN (TV)
Summary
One in this series on the performing arts. In this program -- one in a series of live broadcasts from the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City -- violinist Itzhak Perlman joins the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwarz for the year's opening concert for the Mostly Mozart Festival. Perlman and host Patrick Watson introduce the concert, which begins with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Allegro con spirito from Serenade in D, K.320 ("Posthorn"). After a brief discussion with Schwarz about Perlman's pre-concert nerves and warm-up routine, Perlman joins the orchestra for Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216. At the intermission, Watson talks with Schwarz and Perlman about the following topics: the technical simplicity of Mozart's music which belies the unique difficulties it presents musicians and conductors; the subtleties in the music selected for the evening's performance; the "detours" Mozart makes within some of his pieces; the evidence of maturation one witnesses in Mozart's concertos; the difficulties Mozart's music presents for violinists; reasons one should appreciate Bach's concertos; the subtle emotionalism of Baroque and Classical music; and the trio's take on studies probing the effects of Mozart's and Bach's music on babies' in-utero development. Schwarz rejoins the orchestra for Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1042. Following a brief conversation between Watson and Schwarz about the next and final Mozart piece in the evening's performance, Schwarz and Perlman return to the stage for Mozart's Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425 ("Linz").
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The Edward John Noble Foundation.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: July 12, 1989 Wednesday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:58:01
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:78508
- GENRE: Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Orchestral music; Violin music
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1976-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Marc Bauman … Coordinating Producer
- John Goberman … Producer
- Karen McLaughlin … Associate Producer
- Kirk Browning … Director
- Alan Skog … Direction (Misc.), Associate Director
- Danny Abelson … Writer
- Johann Sebastian Bach … Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart … Composer
- Gerard Schwarz … Conductor, Music (Misc. Credits), Music Director
- Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra … Symphony Orchestra
- Itzhak Perlman … Instrumentalist, Violinist
- Patrick Watson … Host
- Martin Bookspan … Announcer