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In the 1984 film Amadeus, Antonio Salieri's first encounter with Mozart is at a performance of the Serenade for 13 winds. Salieri has not been impressed with Mozart's boorish behavior before the performance, but as he looks at the music on the page, he describes the beauty and delight of the solo oboe's entry soon thereafter followed by the clarinet's line (in the third movement), leading him to say, "This was no composition by a performing monkey. This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God." It is at this point that Salieri first questions how God could choose a vulgar man like Mozart as his voice; this question becomes a primary theme of the film.

Wednesday, August 26, 8:00 p.m.
Strand Theatre, Rockland
Adults $25-$35, $8 for youth ages 18 and under
Co-sponsor: Bartlett Woods

Our annual First Chair All Stars concerts feature the cream-of-the-crop of symphonic principal players from orchestras across the country. Only in Midcoast Maine at Bay Chamber Concerts will you hear these great performers on the same stage.

Peformers
Demarre McGill, principal flute (San Diego)
Katherine Needleman, principal oboe (Baltimore)
Liang Wang, principal oboe (NY Philharmonic) (pictured)
Loren Kitt, principal clarinet (National Symphony)
Joshua Ranz, principal clarinet (LA Chamber)
Greg Raden, principal clarinet (Dallas)
Michael Rusinek, principal clarinet (Pittsburgh)
Judith LeClair, principal bassoon (NY Philharmonic)
Daniel Matsukawa, principal bassoon (Philadelphia)
William Cabellero, principal French horn (Pittsburgh)
Richard King, principal French horn (Cleveland)
Jennifer Montone, principal French horn (Philadelphia)
James Sommerville, principal French horn (Boston)
Edwin Barker, principal bass (Boston)

Program
Mozart - Serenade for 13 winds, K. 361
Hummel - Octet Partita in E flat
Gounod - Petite Symphonie

Post-concert reception with the artists immediately following.