FRIDAY, JULY 1 FRIDAY, JULY 1 7:30 PM
SPONSOR A Loyal Friend of Brevard Music Center
WHITTINGTON-PFOHL AUDITORIUM TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 Brevard Music Center Orchestra Ken Lam, conductor Joyce Yang, piano
Official piano of the Brevard Music Center
STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
Feu d’artifice (Fireworks)
STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) Part I: The Adoration of the Earth Introduction The Auguries of Spring Daces of the Young Girls Ritual of Abduction Spring Rounds Ritual of the Rival Tribes Procession of the Sage The Sage Dance of the Earth Part II: The Sacrifice Introduction Mystic Circles of the Young Girls Glorification of the Chosen One Evocation of the Ancestors Ritual Action of the Ancestors Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)
INTERMISSION TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso Andantino semplice Allegro con fuoco Ms. Yang, piano
IGOR STRAVINSKY (1881-1971) Feu d’artifice (Fireworks)
Premiered on February 6, 1909, in Saint Petersburg under the direction of Alexander Siloti. It is difficult to fathom that Feu d’artifice is only four years removed from Le sacre. Compositionally, it seems to be in a different orbit.
Composed on the heels of Scherzo fantastique, Stravinsky took another crack at the scherzo genre. Stravinsky scholar, Richard Taruskin, suggests that the young composer successfully progressed in his second scherzo by creating a work that is much more organic, where “technical debts to Rimsky-Korsakov and others remain but no longer obtrude.” Ballet impresario Diaghilev, who heard both scherzos at a concert, was impressed enough that he commissioned
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