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F 8 PM
FRIDAYS
OCT 2 OCT 23 NOV 13 MAR 19 APR 23 JUN 4
Lukáš Vondráček
OCT 2 OCT 23 NOV 13
ALL RACHMANINOFF SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE STRAVINSKY RITE OF SPRING
The powerful Czech pianist Lukáš
Vondráček joins Marin Alsop for a lush
program of piano, vocal and orchestral
music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose
Second Piano Concerto boasts one of
his biggest romantic tunes. The program
closes with his choral symphony, The Bells,
based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Conductor Matthias Pintscher leads
a program celebrating the varied
voices of France. In "Ibéria," from his
multinational tone poem Images,
Debussy carries us to an Andalusian
village in three colorful sound pictures.
The lands of Asia are depicted in Ravel’s
song cycle Shéhérazade, featuring the
Metropolitan Opera’s young mezzo
star Kate Lindsey. And we visit a world
purely of the imagination: Berlioz’s
spine-tingling Symphonie fantastique, in
which a disappointed lover finds himself
entrapped in a terrifying Witches’ Sabbath. Marin Alsop has created a fascinating
program that mixes Russia’s Igor Stravinsky
with Germany’s Kurt Weill. Stravinsky’s
ballet The Rite of Spring provoked a riot at
its premiere in Paris in 1913 and ranks as one
of the 20th century’s most exciting scores.
Fleeing the Nazi takeover of their country,
Weill joined with playwright Bertolt Brecht
to create another Paris shocker in 1933 —
their satirical “ballet with songs,” The Seven
Deadly Sins, which will feature a dancer and
quartet of male voices.
MARIN ALSOP, CONDUCTOR
LUKÁŠ VONDRÁČEK, PIANO
EWA PŁONKA, SOPRANO
GARRETT SORENSON, TENOR
ILYA KUTYUKHIN, BASS-BARITONE
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CONCERT
CHOIR, EDWARD MACLARY, DIRECTOR
RACHMANINOFF
RACHMANINOFF
RACHMANINOFF
RACHMANINOFF
La mer et les mouettes
Le chaperon rouge et le loup
Piano Concerto No. 2
The Bells
Presented in partnership with the Edgar Allan Poe
House and Museum, this performance is part of the
third annual International Poe Festival.
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MATTHIAS PINTSCHER, CONDUCTOR
KATE LINDSEY, MEZZO-SOPRANO
DEBUSSY "Ibéria" from Images
RAVEL Shéhérazade
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
MARIN ALSOP, CONDUCTOR
MELISSA WIMBISH, SOPRANO
GARNETT BRUCE, STAGE DIRECTOR
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
WEILL The Seven Deadly Sins