Mozart and more with the Israel Symphony Orchestra

This October, Dan Ettinger returns to the Israel Symphony Orchestra, where he is music director, leading the orchestra in a program inspired by Western composers’ depictions of the East. 

Ettinger and the orchestra open the program with the overture to Mozart’s comic Singspiel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The opera is set in Turkey, and Mozart loosely based his compositions on the music of Ottoman military bands. 

Then, rising star Jonathan Liebovitz will join the orchestra as soloist for Mozart’s Clarinet Concert in A Major, K. 622. The last of Mozart’s completed compositions, the concerto was written for Anton Stadler, whose frequent collaborations with Mozart solidified the clarinet’s place in the woodwind family. 

The program closes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, which he based  on the Arabic collection of fairy tales, The Thousand and One Nights. Sheherazade is one of Rimsky-Korsakov’s most popular and beloved pieces, and is emblematic of his dazzling, evocative orchestration. 

This program plays October 21 in Rishon LeZion and October 22 in Tel Aviv. For a full schedule of Ettinger’s performances with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, visit his Schedule page.