Even Google pays homage to Mozart today and who are we to buck an anniversary.
We have our own new world percussion versions of two of Mozart's famous Piano Quartets and so I gives that gives us some basis for comment.
In Mozart's case we approached the adaptation of his work with more than usual trepidation. His orchestration seems so much part of the work that one really does hesitate to alter it in any way and his orchestral works have eluded us so far. But with the chamber works like the quartets we found that the combination of steel drums and Mega Moog synthesizer gave a new expression to the music with fresh angle on the light and shade so deftly handled by Mozart. Unusually we were even able to include the slower movements of these works including the tottering introduction of the Larghetto movement of the E Flat Major. These are also instances where the sunny overtones of the steel drums bring the music out of middle European drawing rooms and give it an optimistic New World flavor.
Oh Happy Day!
We have our own new world percussion versions of two of Mozart's famous Piano Quartets and so I gives that gives us some basis for comment.
In Mozart's case we approached the adaptation of his work with more than usual trepidation. His orchestration seems so much part of the work that one really does hesitate to alter it in any way and his orchestral works have eluded us so far. But with the chamber works like the quartets we found that the combination of steel drums and Mega Moog synthesizer gave a new expression to the music with fresh angle on the light and shade so deftly handled by Mozart. Unusually we were even able to include the slower movements of these works including the tottering introduction of the Larghetto movement of the E Flat Major. These are also instances where the sunny overtones of the steel drums bring the music out of middle European drawing rooms and give it an optimistic New World flavor.
Oh Happy Day!