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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Experience a rich musical legacy, recreated with a performance of original arrangements of the opera music of Mozart and Beethoven for Wind Octet, complete with narration and vocal soloists.

For one night, you will be transported back to the musical world of these great masters and their noble patrons with an opportunity to hear this magnificent music in a manner and fashion rarely experienced in today's more modern and commercial musical environment. 

For 18th century composers of opera, intent on reaping financial gain, the first public performance of a work was often the Imperial Opera of the Hapsburg emperors.

But in an age before copyright laws, the music was easily usurped and unauthorized arrangements performed by town musicians and other itinerant performers created a grand precedent for small wind bands that could play indoors and out for all manner of entertainment. 

Thus, the music of the opera halls was rearranged for groups of eight wind instruments, known as Harmaniemusik, and was performed in such diverse venues as the palace of an emperor, the Vauxhall Gardens of London, the streets of Vienna, or local taverns.
SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Grand Valley State University Music Department presents
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