Local salute to Mozart to feature guest violinist

Music lovers and authorities on the subject have concluded that Mozart brought musical classicism to its ultimate development.
He was known for being a most versatile composer. There was no form or medium of music, known during his lifetime, that he did not master and transform, bringing a perfection of form, technique, grace and refinement rarely found.
In 2006, the world will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Many will journey to his birthplace in Salzburg, Austria, and others to Vienna, site of his death 35 years later. Concerts and opera productions around the globe will honor the occasion.
The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Isaiah Jackson with special guest violinist Philippe Quint, will salute the Mozart year Jan. 21 at Powers Auditorium.
About Quint
With fingers and bow flying, Philip Quint is described as a modern-day Nicolo Paganini. Displaying dazzling showmanship calculated to show off his brilliant technique and compelling personality, Quint is a young virtuoso worthy of the Paganini reference.
Defecting from the former Soviet Union in 1991 and now a United States citizen, Quint began his studies at Moscow's Special Music School of the Gifted and made his orchestral debut at age 9. Today, Quint appears with orchestras throughout the United States, Europe and South America.
Quint joins Youngstown Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Calvin Lewis in Concertone for two violins and orchestra composed in 1774, when Mozart was 18 years old. Quint continues the all-Mozart program with the Rondo in B-flat major composed in 1776.
Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was 8. The YSO performs his 34th Symphony. Regarded as one of his earlier symphonic works, the 34th has the unmistakable fingerprint of the master in elegance of style and overall charm. The orchestra opens the evening's concert, underwritten in part by The DeBartolo Corp./John and Denise York, with the ballet music from the opera "Idomeneo."
The Youngstown Symphony Youth Orchestra will perform a program that it will present before the Ohio Music Educators Association Conference at the Cleveland Convention Center on Jan. 26.
The Youth Orchestra won the honor to perform at the conference after receiving the highest comprehensive score among all Ohio student ensembles, including high school and college ensemble, by the association.
Selections to be performed at the concert beginning at 7 p.m. in Powers Auditorium include the von Suppe Light Cavalry Overture, the Stokowski arrangement of the Bach Komm sussen Tod and Tchaikovsky Fantasia from "Romeo and Juliet."
XFor tickets to the Mozart celebration, call the symphony box office at (330) 744-0264 or check online at www.youngstownsymphony.com.