SA Symphony Presents Beethoven Festival Porgy and Bess Summertime
Beethoven Festival
SA Symphony Presents Beethoven Festival Beethoven Festival in January/February sasymphony.com No composer changed music history more profoundly than Beethoven. His symphonies, string quartets, and piano, violin and cello sonatas set the standard against which all future compositions are judged. Leonard Bernstein wrote, "Many, many composers have been able to write heavenly tunes. Beethoven had this gift in a degree that leaves them all panting in the rear guard." And yet, no composer had a more acute handicap, deafness. His Ode to Joy still remains the universal expression of human freedom 184 years after his death. Join the San Antonio Symphony and 12 artistic partners in the 2012 Beethoven Festival. Visit sasymphony.com for more information. For more info visit: http://www.sasymphony.org/category/concerts-tickets/beethoven-festival/ Ludwig van Beethoven was baptised on December 17th 1770 at Bonn. His family originated from Brabant, in Belgium. His father was musician at the Court of Bonn, with a definite weakness for drink. His mother was always described as a gentle, retiring woman, with a warm heart. Beethoven referred to her as his "best friend". The Beethoven family consisted of seven children, but only the three boys survived, of whom Beethoven was the eldest.
Porgy and Bess George Gershwin
George Gershwin wanted to adapt DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy to the stage, and so he went down to South Carolina with his brother Ira, and they spent weeks there trying to learn about African-American Gullah culture. George Gershwin was so pleased with what he called his "folk opera" that he said, "I think the music is so marvelous, I don't believe I wrote it." One of its most famous songs is "Summertime," with the lyrics:
Summertime Porgy and Bess
Summertime, And the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry
One of these mornings You're going to rise up singing Then you'll spread your wings And you'll take to the sky
But till that morning There's a'nothing can harm you With daddy and mamma standing by
Summertime, And the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry
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