SYMPHONIC FAIRY TALES
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
NOVEMBER 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019, 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, October 4, 2019, 8 pm
Saturday, October 5, 2019, 8 pm
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Conrad Tao, piano
EMANUEL AX
PERFORMS BRAHMS
FRI, NOV 8 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF
SAT, NOV 9 | 8 PM STRATHMORE
SUN, NOV 10 | 3 PM MEYERHOFF
Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose Suite
The Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty
Tom Thumb
Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas
Conversations of Beauty and the Beast
The Fairy Garden
Alexander Scriabin Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor, op. 20
Allegro
Andante
Allegro moderato
Conrad Tao
INTERMISSION
Béla Bartók
The Wooden Prince, op. 13, Sz. 60
Xian Zhang, conductor
MOZART PIANO
CONCERTO NO. 23
The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end
at approximately 10 pm.
George Li, piano
FRI, NOV 15 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF
SAT, NOV 16 | 8 PM STRATHMORE
SUN, NOV 17 | 3 PM MEYERHOFF
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About the Artists
Matthias
Pintscher
STRAVINSKY PULCINELLA
THU, NOV 21 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF
FRI, NOV 22 | 8:15 PM STRATHMORE
(OFF THE CUFF)
SAT, NOV 23 | 7 PM MEYERHOFF
(OFF THE CUFF)
SUN, NOV 24 | 3 PM STRATHMORE
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Matthias Pintscher is
the Music Director
of the Ensemble
InterContemporain,
the world’s leading contemporary music
ensemble founded by Pierre Boulez. In
addition to a robust concert season in Paris,
he tours with them throughout Europe,
Asia and the U.S., and this season performs
in Berlin, Brussels, Russia and the U.S.
Known equally as one of today’s foremost
composers, Pintscher will conduct the
premiere of his new work for baritone,
chorus and orchestra, performed by Georg
Nigl and the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus in February.
In the 2019–20 season, Pintscher makes
debuts with the symphony orchestras of
Montreal, Houston and Pittsburgh, as
well as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
at Interlochen. He also makes his debut
at the Vienna State Opera conducting
the premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s opera
Orlando and returns to the Berlin State
Opera for performances of Beat Furrer’s
Violetter Schnee, which he premiered in
January 2019. This season, he returns to
the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre de la
Suisse Romande and Chamber Orchestra
of Europe. In summer 2020, Pintscher will