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It's Spring - Celebrate!
April 17,
2009
Friday, 8:00pm, Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Michael Morgan, Conductor
Pre-concert speaker: John
Kendall Bailey
Program
Ludwig van
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1798)
with Sara Buechner,
Piano
Igor Stravinsky Rite of Spring (1912)
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, Rite of Spring
scandalized audiences, who were not prepared for its wild energy, angular
rhythms and dissonant chords. Stravinsky's controversial ballet score, though
initially greeted with mixed reactions, has forever altered how we experience
music. Today, it is considered one of the true orchestral masterpieces of the
twentieth century .
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Sara
Buechner
Concert Sponsored in part by
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