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May 26th, 2014
Omaha, NE — Grief gives way to healing at memorial performance next week.
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Wednesday, May 28, the Rangbrook Ensemble will perform a program titled “Memoriam.†The concert, just several days after Memorial Day, is dedicated to Professor Nelson T. Potter, who died in 2013. His daughter, Sophia Potter, is a cellist in the ensemble and says that one work on the program was chosen by her father shortly before he passed.
“So I called my parents and I said ‘Mom, will you ask dad what his favorite of the Mozart Quintets was’ and he said, ‘Oh, the G minor!’,†she said.
Potter says she only later found out that Mozart’s G Minor Quintet had it’s own musical story to tell.
“That was a quintet that Mozart wrote on hearing that his father was terminally ill,†Potter said.“It’s very restless, especially the first movement…claustrophobic…very dissonant, even for Mozart.â€
Potter points out that Quintet seems to follow Mozart’s grieving until the finale, which concludes Mozart’s musical journey of healing.
“They’re a lot more settled, they’re happier…being able to come out of it,†she said.
The second work on the program also appeared at a time of mourning – this time not for the composer, but for an entire nation. German composer Paul Hindemith was in London preparing to perform “The Swan Turnerâ€. Fate, it seems, had something else in mind.
“Two days before the concert, King George V…just died,†Potter said.
Hindemith and the producers decided that “The Swan Turner†wasn’t appropriate, so the composer created a ‘Plan B.’
“He sat in an office for about 6 hours and wrote…mourning,†said Potter.
The work was not only appropriate for the loss of a monarch, but immediately popular.
“And then in the 4th movement the most distinctive thing…doxology,†she said.
The Rangbrook Ensemble’s program, “Memoriam,†is Wednesday, May 28 at 7:30 pm in the First Presbyterian Church of Omaha. More information is available at rangbrookensemble.org.
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