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It's Spring - Celebrate!
April 17,
2009
Friday, 8:00pm, Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Michael Morgan, Conductor
7pm: Pre-concert speaker
John Kendall Bailey
Program
Please note program
change:
Petrouchka by Igor Stravinsky will be performed instead
of
Rite of Spring, which had been previously
announced.
Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Overture (1888)
Igor Stravinsky
Petrouchka
(1947 version)
Mark
Lanz Weiser
Four Scenes from "The Story of Tocatta &
Fugue"
Ludwig van
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1798)
with Sara Buechner,
piano
Our April concert pairs two
composers who were revolutionaries in their time, and who changed the course of
music forever.
Beethoven, a composer who pushed the boundaries of
conventional composition and had a profound impact on the future of music,
infused his works with unprecedented drama and passion. International
award-winning pianist Sara Buechner, who has appeared as soloist with many of
America's leading orchestras (among them the New York Philharmonic and
Philadelphia, Cleveland and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras), will join OEBS
for a performance of Beethoven's grand Piano Concerto No. 1.
Just over
a century after Beethoven wrote his piano concerto, Stravinsky became the
darling of Paris with his brilliant, controversial ballet scores.
Petrouchka, based on the immortal Russian puppet character that comes to
life, used polytonality and rapidly changing rhythms in a new way that came as
a revelation to young European composers and influenced the course of musical
composition.
We'll start the concert with Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian
Easter Overture, a work bursting with a spirit of primitive energy no less
dazzling than the carnival scenes in Petrouchka.
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Buechner
Weiser
Concert Sponsored in part by
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