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Jeremy Denk’s Mozart Piano Concertos will be released September 17, 2021, on Nonesuch Records. Denk is joined by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for two Mozart concertos No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 and No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 bookending the composer’s solo Rondo in A minor, K. 511. Denk says of K. 503 in his liner note: “As I write these words … the world as it used to be has vanished, a pandemic world has settled in, and as we keep telling ourselves we have to live with uncertainty. Which has always seemed to me one of the key messages of this great concerto, so different from the rest, and so full of the love of its creator. “503 has very few tunes,” he continues “This may explain why it is not one of the most popular of his concertos … You feel that Mozart is instructing you to listen more deeply, away from ornament, behind the frills, to realize that music is more than an assembly of charming and diverting tunes, to think about ideas beneath the surface, forces a
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5Q: All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
“5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area with a special focus on the GLBTQ community’s relationship to the production. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process.
One hundred years ago this month, the battle trenches of the Western Front witnessed a great upwelling of common humanity. In a series of spontaneous cease-fires that became known collectively as the “Christmas truce,” Allied and German soldiers came up over the top of their trenches and marked the holiday together sharing gifts, singing carols and even organizing an impromptu soccer match.