1080p Overture to Oberon | UH Wind Ensemble | 2011 Aloha Concert

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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
College of Arts and Humanities
Department of Music
presents:

University of Hawai'i Bands
2011 Aloha Concert
@ McKinley High School Auditorium
April 25, 2011

Under the direction of Keith Higaki

This is the 2011 Wind Ensemble performing:

"Overture to Oberon"

by Carl Maria von Weber

trans. Mayhew Lake

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Program Notes:

Carl Maria von Weber was perhaps more responsible than any other German composer for paving the way for a German-language opera style. Weber, a music critic, conductor, and pianist, sought to bring music to the burgeoning middle-class, especially music they could relate to and understand. His folk-legend operas were a deliberate turn from the lofty mythological stories of French and Italian operas. He influenced a whole generation of German composers, including Felix Mendelssohn and Richard Wagner.

The overtures to Weber's three greatest operas, Der Freischutz, Euryanthe, and Oberon, have become favorites of the concert-going public and are mainstays of the standard orchestra repertoire. The overture beings with a slow introduction (Adagio sostenuto), launcehd by a call from Oberon's magic horn. A bracing fff chord leads to the principal Allegro con fuco, featuring several melodies from the opera. Among them is Rezia's aria - "ocean! though mighty monster!" - which provides the basis for the overture's majestic conclusion.
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