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Charlotte Thiele violin Robert Oberaigner clarinet Serafina Jaffé harp Johannes Nalepa double bass Members of the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden and its Young Academy Program Advent program featuring delightful arrangements of Mozart, astonishingly combined with Alpine folk music Pre-program with students from the Meißen District Music School How about a chamber concert with a difference? Delightful arrangements of Mozart are astonishingly combined with Alpine folk music and served up by members of the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden and its Young Academy. The idea for the program came to Robert Oberaigner through the highly graceful and soulful “Mozart Minuet,” preserved in a manuscript from Lower Austria around 1800. “There is an immediate connection,” says the clarinetist and avowed Mozart fan. In the lifetime of the Viennese classicist, folk music and art music were not as carefully separated as they are today. Serious music and light music—these categories did not exist back then. Thus Leopold Mozart, the father, admonished his son: “I recommend that in your work you think not only of the musical but also of the unmusical audience—you know there are 100 ignorant people for every 10 true connoisseurs—so do not forget the so-called popular, which also tickles the long ears.” This atmospheric Advent concert aims to make artificial distinctions disappear. A delicate selection of Mozart works, drawn from operas and other genres, naturally meets Alpine folk music. The scoring for violin, clarinet, harp, and double bass is ideal for this. The fo
