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Transfigured
Night
Michael Morgan,
Conductor
April 18, 2008
Friday, 8:00pm,
Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Program
Arnold
Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
(1917)
Roberto Sierra
Carnaval for
Orchestra
Magnum Opus Commission (World Premiere)
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1881)
Sandra
Rivers, piano
Our April program has a
Viennese flavor and features post-Romantic works by Schoenberg and Brahms.
Originally written as a string sextet and later arranged for string orchestra
(the version usually heard in concert halls today), Verklärte Nacht
(Transfigured Night) is a lovely, emotional work based on a poem about a
woman's heart-wrenching confession to her betrothed during a walk through the
woods on a moonlit night.
Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 was a long time
coming, written nearly 20 years after his first piano concerto met with a cool
reception. His second piano concerto, on the other hand, was an immediate
success and has since become a favorite of the standard orchestral repertoire.
We'll be joined by acclaimed concert pianist Sandra Rivers for our performance
of this work.
Also on the program will be a Magnum Opus world premiere
of Carnaval for Orchestra by Puerto Rican-American composer Roberto
Sierra, whose work is commissioned and regularly performed by major orchestras
around the world.
"Rivers is an artist of
extraordinary sensitivity and solid musicianship. Her performance showed rare
interpretive gifts." ~ The Cincinnati Enquirer. |
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Concert
presented by
Magnum Opus: 2007-2008 is the fifth season of the Magnum
Opus project, one of the largest commissioning projects of new symphonic works
in the U.S. Sponsored by Kathryn Gould through Meet the Composer, Inc., it
grants the Santa Rosa, Marin and Oakland East Bay symphonies to jointly
commission, premiere and give repeat performances of nine new works by American
composers over five years.
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