Peck School of the Arts: Institute of Chamber Music Recital
Sun, Mar 10
|Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing
Time & Location
Mar 10, 2019, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing , Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
About the event
I will be joining members of the Institute of Chamber Music Program to perform Leos Janáček's Mládí (Youth), suite for wind sextet, JW 7/10
Janácek composed his great wind sextet Mladi in 1924 in the month of his 70th birthday. Also referred to as the youth sextet, the work figured into the period between the Piano Concertino and the orchestral Danube.
This was clearly a splendid time in the life of the composer. With many recent successes, a celebration was held in Janácek's honor to crown the septuagenarian's accomplishments. Performances of his music were undertaken. Even a bust of the composer was unveiled in his native Moravia. Having thus achieved a sort of celebrity status, Janácek produced the highly original sextet for winds best known as Mladi, Youth, a term that has been taken different ways.
Youth, as Janácek defined it (in this context), referred to childhood memories, with particular…