Listening Spaces VIII Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4

There’s a reason this piece keeps finding its way back into rooms like Bridge Books. Written for a friend, full of warmth and technical mischief, it’s Mozart at his most generous — music that rewards attention rather than demanding it.

Listening Spaces exists for exactly this kind of encounter. No lecture, no performance pressure, just a room of people giving a piece of music the space to be heard properly. We put the work on, we talk a little about what we’re listening for, and then we listen — together, without our phones, without the usual noise competing for our attention.

This is the eighth instalment of a series that started as an experiment and has become something closer to a ritual. Past editions have sat with Mussorgsky, Schubert, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Bartók, Mendelssohn and Strauss. Vol. VIII turns to Mozart.

Saturday 18 July, 14:00 – 15:30. Bridge Books, Marshalltown. Limited to twenty seats, so the room stays a room and not a venue.

Tickets: R50 — book here: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1597713576

Ag shem, someone had to make classical music feel like it belongs to everyone again.