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sai-national.org • Spring 2023 19 Ticciati, Marc Minkowski, and omas Guggeis replaced Daniel Barenboim. Each conductor led one of the three Vienna Philharmonic concerts in the Grosses Festspielhaus. Additionally, András Schiff conducted this orchestra in a semi-staged production of Don Giovanni in the Felsenreitschule, the venue made famous in e Sound of Music film in 1965. Both of these large halls were in Old Town, where I also heard two recitals by the Spunicunifait (a humorous, made-up word by Mozart) Quintett in the former home of Salzburg's Prince-Archbishops, the Residenz, where my brother performed during the 1990 Mozart Week. Leading the Camerata Salzburg, virtuoso Renaud Capuçon performed all five Mozart violin concertos in one of the most remarkable concerts I have ever heard. Pianist Robert Levin (who performed and recorded with my brother) wrote the fieen cadenzas. In the final concert of Mozart Week, Levin appeared as soloist in Mozart's Concerto in C minor K. 491 with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, led by conductor Gemma New. Serendipitously, just before the Baborák Ensemble's concert, I happened to meet Daniel Beyer, a German conductor. He told me his father, the late musicologist Franz Beyer, known for his restoration of the Requiem a half century ago, had completed one of the fragments on the morning program. A short walk between concert venues on opposite sides of the Salzach River made attending back-to-back concerts convenient. As a result, aer a performance in Old Town, I crossed the bridge and arrived in plenty of time to check my coat, buy a program, and find my seat in either the Mozarteum Foundation's Great Hall or the smaller Viennese Hall. A new foyer completed in 2022 links these venues. On the wall of donors, I located my name: Jayne I. Hanlin, in Memoriam Malcolm Frager. I wanted to pay tribute to my brother, who in 1987 received the Golden Mozart Medal, the Mozarteum Foundation's highest honor, for finding missing Mozart manuscripts. I imagine him smiling at the listing. Quite by a delightful happenstance, some members of the Orquesta Iberacademy Medellín were sitting in the row behind me at a recital; they extended an invitation to their concert. I accepted. Later, aer a short pause at a concert with the Mozart Kinderorchester and Alumni, there was a surprise. A few of the Colombians joined the young musicians onstage, collaborating in a work by a Latin-American composer. During this unusual, non-Mozart piece in Mozart Week repertoire, they twirled their basses and cellos on the instruments' endpins. e audience loved this jazzy selection; the orchestra encored the performance. A few of these South American musicians played the Mozart accompaniment when the Salzburger Marionettes presented a contemporary production of e Old Tree: Franzi's Journey to the End of the World. Briefly, the plot is about a young girl who is distressed by the amount of concrete replacing trees; at the end, Arbolo, the last living tree, gives her fresh shoots to make the world green again. I enjoyed hearing Mozart's Requiem twice. Le Concert des Nations played with La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, a twenty-two member chamber choir singing from memory, in the first performance; the Vienna Philharmonic and the Wiener Singverein, a concert choir of ninety singers, gave the second performance. During thunderous ovations at the end of all programs, the main performers received flowers, and oen the gentlemen handed their bouquets to women in the orchestras. Many curtain calls continued even aer encores. Some groups were led by a concertmaster or keyboard soloist. I was intrigued by the different arrangement of players onstage and noticed unusual period instruments — baroque trumpets, natural horns, a basset horn (member of the clarinet family) — as well as cellos without endpins. I was particularly impressed by the energy of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with its international personnel who stood (except for the cellists) to perform Mozart's Symphony No. 6 in F major, K. 43. It was special to see the assistant concertmaster, one of my former campers when I was Director of Junior Girls at Interlochen Arts Camp about three decades ago! Attending twenty-two concerts brought me unimaginable, indescribable joy. Mozart Week was heaven! Jayne I. Hanlin is an initiate of Alpha Omicron and current member of the St. Louis Alumnae chapter. Mrs. Hanlin, the sister of famed pianist Malcolm Frager, is the co- author of Learning Latin Through Mythology (Cambridge University Press, 1991). A Wld of Music For more information about Mozart Week and purchasing subscriptions or individual tickets, go to: mozarteum.at The Magic Flute House, where The Magic Flute House, where Mozart allegedly wrote segments Mozart allegedly wrote segments of the composition. of the composition.

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