We conclude our series with the music of SERGEI PROKOFIEV presenting a suite from the score of the movie THE LIEUTENANT KIJE, and excerpts from his opera THE LOVE OF THREE ORANGES
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Our program begins a short series with the music of SERGEI PROKOFIEV presenting a suite from his ballet ROMEO & JULIET, perhaps his most beloved work
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We celebrate the week of Christmas, with the MISA CRIOLLA composed by Argentinian ARIEL RAMIREZ, adorning the liturgy with indigenous musical instruments.
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In his Choral Fantasy, a work for piano, orchestra, soloists, and chorus, Beethoven's modifies the melody of his ODE TO THE JOY, from his Symphony #9
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Our program presents the legendary cellist JACQUELINE DU PRE interpreting Elgar's Cello Concerto on Tuesday, November 22, 5:30pm and Thursday, November 24, 5pm
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Our program presents ELGAR's ENIGMA VARIATIONS, his first big success and one of his most popular works
Tuesday November 15, 5:30pm and Thursday, November 17, 5pm.
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Our series with the music of Jan Sibelius concludes with the presentation of the symphonic poem \ 'FINLANDIA' , felt to represent Finland's national anthem.
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Our program explores Sibelius' chamber music with small pieces composed for the cello, and Sibelius only string quartet, also referred to as VOCES INTIMAS, or intimate voices.
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Our program presents Mozart's Violin Concerto #5, the last of the five concertos composed by Mozart in 1775, when he was 19 years old. The concert is nicknamed "The Turkish" because its last move...
MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents EDWARD GRIEG's piano concerto. Inspired by Robert Schumann's piano concerto, Grieg produces a similar intense and beautiful concerto.
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Saint Saens Symphony #3 is nicknamed the "Organ Symphony" because of the significant use of the organ in the piece. Saint Saens was an accomplished Organist, thus the especial use of the instrume...
SAINT SAENS composed three concertos for violin and orchestra, as well as two other orchestral pieces for the violin. In today's program, we would listen to the violinist JOSHUA BELL in the Viol...
The prolific French composer Camille Saint Saens composed five concertos for piano and orchestra, of which we would listen to the Second with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
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DVORAK composed his symphony #9 while visiting America, and was inspired by native and african american music, earning the name of SYMPHONY OF THE NEW WORLD.
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Dvorak composed five symphonic poems, in the style of Franz Liszt inspired by literary poems. Let us listen to the Golden Spinning Wheel, one of the five.
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Continuing with the music of FALLA, our program presents selections from the ballet THE THREE CORNERED HAT, with popular Spanish dances like the farruca and the jota.
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Mozart, Beethoven & Mas begins a series with the music of Spanish composer, MANUEL DE FALLA featuring short pieces written for the piano and popular Spanish songs.
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JOAQUIN RODRIGO composed this beautiful guitar piece for the famous Spanish Guitarist ANDRES SEGOVIA. Our program presents guitarist PEPE ROMERO in this Concert.
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Mozart composed many combinations for the piano and strings, trios, quartets, and quintets.
In this Program, we explore the Quartet for Piano and Strings #1
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MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents cellist YO YO MA and pianist EMMANUEL AX in the beautiful sonata for piano and violoncello in G minor of SERGEI RACHMANINOV
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Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov was the most prolific composer of the Group of the Five. In his RUSSIAN EASTER FESTIVAL OVERTURE, he brings beautiful melodies of the Russian liturgy.
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Modest Mussorgsky was another Russian composer of the GROUP OF THE FIVE. PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITON was composed originally for piano, but the most popular version is the orquestral version by RAVE...
Alexander Borodin was another Russian composer of the GROUP OF THE FIVE. In today's program, I have created a "suite" of the orchestral numbers of his opera PRINCE IGOR
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