George Frideric Handel composed his Music for the Royal Fireworks in 1749 at the behest of King George II, for the fireworks display in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749. The music—and event—celebrated the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. In honor of the anniversary of this premiere Foley Schuler will feature a performance in which Sir Charles Mackerras recreates the arrangement in which the music was first heard that day (at King George's request containing "no fiddles," but only war-like instruments of winds and percussion. That will be paired with the The Civil War—a Symphonic Trilogy, by the German emigre composer, Margaret Buechner—in honor of the 160th anniversary, a little earlier in the month, of the end of the American Civil War.
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