Sean Sutherland Plays Mozart

Sean Sutherland plays at
Mountain View Senior Center

Sean Sutherland, pianist, plays
Mozart's Piano Concerto #21,
2nd & 3rd movements (1785)
with Vincent Gomez conducting
South Bay Community Orchestra

Mountain View Senior Center

Wednesday, July 26, 2017, 3 pm-4:30 pm

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

Sean Sutherland plays
Mozart's Piano Concerto #21

Preface: Two weeks ago, I picked up a flyer at Mountain View Senior Center on Sean Sutherland playing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto #21, 2nd & 3rd movements. This is one of my favorite piece of music. I have a 1963 RCA vinyl record of Artur Rubinstein playing Mozart's Concertos #21 & #23, that was listened to often. When the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan used the 2nd movement as their theme, this music became even more popular. I told a friend about this event since she enjoyed Jon Nakamatsu conversation & playing at the Los Altos Library on April 18, 2017. However when she phoned the Mountain View Senior Center, nobody knew about this concert. I checked the July 2017 Prime Time News, and it was not listed in their events and calendar. Finally, I phoned and was told the concert is on and will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room A. My friend and I arrived at 2:45 pm, and got seats in the second row, so we could observe the pianist's hands playing. The orchestra took up 2/3 of the room's space, with four rows of chairs squeezed in 1/3 of the room. I counted some 60 seated, with a dozen standing against the wall. The program listed five selections before Sutherland's playing, and three selections afterwards. Sutherland was born in St. Vincent in the Caribbean, receiving a B.S. & M.S. in Engineering at MIT (Guardian, 5-27-2011). He's studying now at Stanford Graduate School of Education (Class of 2017), with a project on Kandodis. He was a Semi-Finalist in the Van Cliburn 2016 Amateur Competition (YouTube: Preliminary Round, Quarterfinal Round, Semifinal Round). I've linked all the music played today by the South Bay Community Orchestra from Wikipedia and YouTube below. YouTube performances listing conductors and performers were selected instead of postings with anonymous orchestras or performers.

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Sean Sutherland & Orchestra

South Bay Community Orchestra

Conductor Vincent Gomez & Orchestra

Time Composer Music YouTube

3:10-3:15 pm
J.S. Bach
(1685-1750) Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (1723)
Alon Goldstein
plays piano

3:15-3:20 pm
Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809) Surprise Symphony #94, 2nd movement (1791)
Leonard Bernstein
Wiener Philarmoniker

3:20-3:25 pm
L. Beethoven
(1770-1827) "Ode to Joy" from Symphony #9 (1824)
Leonard Bernstein
Wiener Philarmoniker

3:25-3:33 pm
Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897) Variations on a Theme by Haydn (1873)
Gustavo Dudamel
Berliner Philharmoniker

3:33-3:40 pm
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893) Pathetique Symphony #6 Themes (1893)
Émile Naoumoff
plays piano

3:40-3:53 pm
W.A. Mozart
(1756-1791) Sean Sutherland plays

Piano Concerto #21,
2nd & 3rd movements (1785)
Alicia De Larrocha
English Chamber Orchestra

3:53-4:05 pm
Henry Mancini
(1924-1994) Henry Mancini Medley:

"Baby Elephant Walk" from Hatari (1962),
Charade (1963), Days of Wine & Roses (1963)
Orchestra plays
Mancini Medley

4:05-4:15 pm
Klaus Badelt
(born 6-12-1967) Pirates of the Carribean (2003)
Antonia Joy Wilson
RTS Symphony Orchestra

4:15-4:20 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns
(1835-1921) "Bacchanale" from Samson & Delilah (1877)

YouTube scenes from Samson & Delilah (1949)
Film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Gustavo Dudamel
Berliner Philharmoniker

Time	Composer	Music	YouTube
3:10-3:15 pm	J.S. Bach (1685-1750)	*Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring* (1723)	Alon Goldstein plays piano
3:15-3:20 pm	Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)	Surprise Symphony #94, 2nd movement (1791)	Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
3:20-3:25 pm	L. Beethoven (1770-1827)	"Ode to Joy" from Symphony #9 (1824)	Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
3:25-3:33 pm	Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)	*Variations on a Theme by Haydn* (1873)	Gustavo Dudamel Berliner Philharmoniker
3:33-3:40 pm	Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)	*Pathetique Symphony #6* Themes (1893)	Émile Naoumoff plays piano
3:40-3:53 pm	W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)	Sean Sutherland plays Piano Concerto #21, 2nd & 3rd movements (1785)	Alicia De Larrocha English Chamber Orchestra
3:53-4:05 pm	Henry Mancini (1924-1994)	Henry Mancini Medley: "Baby Elephant Walk" from Hatari (1962), Charade (1963), Days of Wine & Roses (1963)	Orchestra plays Mancini Medley
4:05-4:15 pm	Klaus Badelt (born 6-12-1967)	*Pirates of the Carribean* (2003)	Antonia Joy Wilson RTS Symphony Orchestra
4:15-4:20 pm	Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)	"Bacchanale" from Samson & Delilah (1877) YouTube scenes from Samson & Delilah (1949) Film directed by Cecil B. DeMille	Gustavo Dudamel Berliner Philharmoniker