Rocky Horror Picture Show
Wednesday, October 30 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: Free For All
Join us for this cult classic, and come in costume. A $100 prize will be given for the best costume presented on stage by our special emcee, Daisy Deadpetal. You are also encouraged to bring your own props. Refreshments sold separately.
Also at Pinecrest Gardens
Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, November 3 at 3:00 p.m.
Free with Park Admissions
New World School of the Arts
On Sunday November 3, outstanding musicians from the New World School of the Arts College Music Division return to Pinecrest Gardens to perform an afternoon of Chamber Music from the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries.
The program begins with Luigi Boccherini’s Piano Quintet in C major, which contains charming variations on a Spanish Military theme. One must imagine sitting next to the window on a summer’s night in a Madrid flat and that the band can only be heard in the far-off distance in some other part of the city, so at first it must be played quite softly.
Slowly the music grows louder and louder until it is very loud, indicating the Night Watch are passing directly under the listener’s window. Then gradually the volume decreases and again becomes faint as the band moves off down the street into the distance.
The program continues with excerpts from Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, which was premiered in 1941. Messiaen wrote the piece while a prisoner of war in a German concentration camp, and it was first performed by his fellow prisoners. It has come to be recognized as one of his most important works.
The concert concludes with Felix Mendelssohn’s chilling final String Quartet, opus 80 in f minor, written after the death of his beloved sister, Fanny and only two months before he himself died at the age of 37.
