Name: Songs and Stories of Hope
Start: 2022-01-09T15:00:00
Location: Beverly O'Neill Theater

Niv Ashkenazi

Teresa Buchholz

Long Beach Symphony

Serpentine Fire’s dynamic and fast paced journey through the 70’s and 80’s features greatest hits of Earth, Wind and Fire. Long Beach Symphony Pops concludes the season with uplifting and funky music in this irresistible crowd-pleasing show. “Serpentine Fire” – the music of Earth, Wind & Fire is a first-class performance of this universally known music for audiences of all ages.

Earth, Wind & Fire Dance Party

Long Beach Convention Center

We begin our final concert of the season with one of Mozart’s best-known and most beloved works: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (or A Little Night Music) and like most of Mozart’s works, it sounds so simple and completely belies the composer’s sophistication. We actually don’t know for sure why Mozart composed this piece. He rarely composed without a specific purpose or commission. And there’s no mention of this work in his letters or those of his contemporaries. All we know is that he finished it when he was 31 years old in Vienna—the same year he wrote his opera Don Giovanni. Maybe it was one of several works written for a friend of his, Gottfried von Jacquin, in Vienna. Jacquin’s sister, Franziska, was a pupil of Mozart, and together, they met as a group at Jacquin’s home for what they called “discussions, games, and merrymaking.” Mozart actually wrote several works for the Jacquin household, and A Little Night Music may well have been one of them. And maybe it’s an example of party music—who knows? In any case, it is great music, lots of fun to play and to listen to.