Concert event showcases Mozart string quintent

“The Gift of Irony” will be the theme of the next concert in the “Great Music Unplugged” series, sponsored by The Doctors Kienle Center of Humanistic Medicine and Penn State College of Medicine’s Department of Humanities.

Very few artists managed to master drama, profundity and humor, but even fewer moved freely between them within a space of a 40-minute musical composition. Mozart’s celebrated G Minor String Quintet is a singular work encompassing deep sorrow, nostalgia, delight, serenity and irony, revealed with elegant clarity of musical dialogue. From the sublime to the ridiculous, Mozart’s embrace of both order and randomness makes his music from the Age of Reason surprisingly relevant to Postmodernist skepticism. Peter Sirotin, Artistic Director of Market Square Concerts and Concertmaster of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, will be joined by an international group of musicians for this presentation.

The concert will take place 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in the College’s Lecture Room D (Room 7619), and dinner will be served immediately following in Room C1845 A/B.

To register, email centerstage@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.

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