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What: Maricopa Music Circle “Autumn Musicale”
When: Nov. 4, 3 p.m.
Where: 43356 W. Courtney Drive
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Maricopa’s premier music ensemble ushers in its 10th season with a free special event Nov. 4. Maricopa Music Circle chamber orchestra’s “Autumn Musicale” is a fundraising event for the orchestra and includes both a concert and a silent auction of fine-art works on paper and canvas.

The concert’s theme riffs on the foliage’s perennial change of colors in fall. Composers often think of individual orchestral instruments in painterly terms, like expressions of a palette of colors with each instrument possessing its own color and degree of transparency or opaqueness (along with high or low range and other features).

MMC’s “Autumn Musicale” will shed its spotlight on music for solo instruments and smaller ensemble combinations, along with music for the full ensemble. The natural pairing with the music will be the silent auction of fine-art works by established artists such as Colorado’s Sandy Day Selbert and several Maricopa-based artists.

The concert highlights the individual artistry of MMC’s own dedicated musicians and includes several rarities – a newly-discovered work for viola and piano by Russian master Dmitri Shostakovich (an Arizona premiere) and a Mozart piece for glass harmonica now arranged for mixed quartet. Other program music is by Glazunov, Bartok, Tchaikovsky, Bach and U.S. composers Edward MacDowell and Scott Joplin, the ragtime king.

The free event includes a light reception. It will take place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Rancho El Dorado at 43356 W. Courtney Drive, where there is ample on-street parking.

Samples of MMC live performances at bit.ly/YouTube_MMCmin and bit.ly/YouTube_MMCbran

This story appears in the November issue of InMaricopa.

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