Juno Orchestra – Context: Six Centuries

Juno Orchestra presents “Context: Six Centuries” Sunday, February 2, at 2:30 p.m. the Brattleboro Music Center.

Zon Eastes, Juno Music Director, explains that the concert will feature works from six centuries that may share similar formal structures, texts, or intentions, though each is singular and commanding on its own.

For example, Eastes has chosen two settings of a revered Latin text, O Magnum Mysterium, by composers living 500 years apart, one from the 1500’s, by Spanish composer Thomas Luis de Victoria, the other from the 1900s, by American composer Morten Lauridsen.

Eastes notes, “The audience will understand something of each composer’s creative considerations in the beautiful and luminous melodies and harmonies.”

The program also will include Henry Purcell’s Music from Abdelazar; various works by Antonio Vivaldi, among them Sinfonia in B minor; Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546; Felix Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 13, Sinfoniesatz, in C minor; and the premiere of Christian Kriegeskotte’s Snow Lion, which draws influences from spiritual jazz and heavy fusion, and is dedicated to the people of Tibet and the Dalai Lama.