Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 is an iconic masterpiece that compressed a whole symphony orchestra to 15 musicians and four movements to one. His model inspired many others, including Franz Hasenöhrl, who arranged Richard Strauss’s tuneful Till Eulenspiegel from a massive orchestra to violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and double bass. Two-time Oscar-winning film composer Leonard Rosenman studied with Schoenberg. Scott Dunn’s piano four hands arrangement offers a taste of Rosenman’s East of Eden. Two works packed with emotion provide a bittersweet finale to the final season. Bach’s monumental Chaconne is a 15-minute tour de-force. Jacaranda fades to black with Mahler’s final work, the fiercely beautiful Symphony No. 10 Adagio arranged by Hans Stadlmair for strings.

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Fierce Beauty Part Ii

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Jacaranda opens its final season Planet Schoenberg on September 23 with Hanging Gardens. Schoenberg’s lush Book of the Hanging Gardens is a Late Romantic setting of bittersweet love poems by Stefan George. Its 1910 premiere received a lukewarm reception, but the tides turned in 1920 Paris when critics heard Schoenberg’s genius. Together pianist Steven Vanhauwaert and mezzo soprano Katarzyna Sadej take this forbidden journey into hanging gardens.  Under the direction of Jacaranda's music director Mark Alan Hilt, soprano Julia Metzler and the Jacaranda Chamber Ensemble will perform the chamber version of Gustav Mahler’s beloved Fourth Symphony—composed in 1900 and arranged by Schoenberg disciple Erwin Stein in 1920. The always pragmatic Arnold Schoenberg believed such arrangements offered clarity and an affordable way to hear unknown symphonic music, especially by his friend Mahler.

Mark Alan Hilt

Events

Feb 25, 2024

Fierce Beauty Part Ii · Jacaranda Music

Sep 23, 2023

Hanging Gardens · Jacaranda Music

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Mahler

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Conductor in Symphony No. 10 by Mahler

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Conductor in Till Eulenspiegel—einmal anders! by Strauss

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Conductor in Chamber Symphony No. 1 by Schönberg

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Conductor in Violin Partita No.2 in D minor by Bach

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Conductor in Das Buch der hängenden Gärten by Schoenberg

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Conductor in Suite for Piano by Schönberg

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