The Macao Orchestra (OM, from the Portuguese acronym), under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, presents the chamber music for brass and woodwind “Listen to Winds” on Friday, 26 January, at 8pm, at the Dom Pedro V Theatre, offering a concert that fuses jazz and classical music. Tickets are now available at the Macau Ticketing Network. In tandem with this concert season’s theme “Along with the Musical Joy”, the sharing session “Music Hour with Musicians” will be held specially before the concert, featuring OM’s Principal Oboe Kai Sai and Principal Flute Weng Sibei, who will share the structure and characteristics of the musical pieces OM is presenting with the participants. All music aficionados are welcome to share and exchange views with the musicians.
Although string quartets are the most popular form of chamber music, pieces for woodwind or brass instruments are equally prevalent. Brahms’ work Clarinet Quintet in B minor, which was always compared to Mozart’s masterpiece Clarinet Quintet in A Major, was one of the last pieces composed by Brahms, showing a sense of sophistication, mellowness and nostalgia. The concert also features two works by 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc, namely the Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone, as well as the Sextet for Piano and Winds, which feature the refined and restrained neoclassical style and rich jazz elements popular at the time. Poulenc was greatly fond of wind instruments as he considered that the timbre and power of expression of such instruments always inspired his musical imagination.
In addition, the sharing session “Music Hour with Musicians” will be held on the same day, prior to the concert, at 7:15pm, at Dom Pedro V Theatre Mirror Hall. Admission is free. Registration can be made on or before 25 January through tel. no. 2853 0782 during office hours or through OM’s WeChat account.
Tickets for the concert “Listen to Winds” are priced at MOP120 and MOP100, with various discount packages available. Ticketing hotline: 2855 5555. Ticketing website: www.macauticket.com. For details and enquiries about the programme, please visit OM’s webpage at www.icm.gov.mo/om.
