Live Review     Moonlight and Mozart part III



Fort Worth's annual 4th of July celebration began it's second week in earnest with Overture to Die Fledermaus.  The botanical gardens always provides a wonderfully enchanting setting for the historic tunes which comprise these annual perfomances put on by our own Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. 
           Just as in the days of old families gathered around there blankets with cheese and wine and enjoyed beautiful music.  Diverting from the music for a moment, let me say that parking this year is not difficult with shuttles running on time from Farrington Field to the gardens.  Tickets can be bought at the gate for only $17 for a lawn seat.  Children under 12 are free.  Be sure to bring a blanket and bug repellent.  
          Getting back to the music, the next movment was Mozart's Movment 1 Alegro aperto from the Concerto in C.  This was a beautiful piece featuring Jennifer Corning on Obeo.  Next came Donizetti's Concertino for Flute and Chamber Orchestra in C Major featuring Jan Crisanti on flute.  With the end of this piece came the ending of daylight, the beginning of the intermission, and the anticipation of what lie before us.   The music picked up again with Mozart's  Symphony No. 41 in C Major written in 1788         ( which was  written befor his Requiem Mass. ) Symphony No. 41,was later titled "Jupiter" after the Roman king of the gods.  The evening ended with the traditional fireworks put to the music of Dvořák's Slavonc Dance in G Minor.  Though the fireworks were  specutacular it was only a small sample of the grand spectical to be set aloft the weekend of the 4th of July.
                                                                                                                                 
D Wakeley
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