PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION CONCERT QUICK GUIDE

Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 4 PM Peter Norton Symphony Space Performance #111: Season 4, Concert 17 Peter Jay Sharp Theatre

Zachary Schwartzman, conductor The concert will last approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes

Brief remarks by Regina Brady, oboe

ANATOLY LYADOV Born: 5/11/1855 in St. Petersburg, Died: 8/28/1914 at age 59 in Polinovka, Borovichi, Russia THE ENCHANTED LAKE 6 min

Written Premiered 1909, at age 53 2/21/1909 in St. Petersburg Nikolai Tcherepnin, conductor

Brief remarks by Denis Savelyev, flute

IGOR STRAVINSKY Born: 6/17/1882 in Lomonosov, Russia Died: 4/6/1971 at age 88 in New York City THE FIREBIRD SUITE 32 min

Written Movements 1909–10, at age 27 Introduction—Prelude and Dance of the Suite arranged in 1945 Firebird—Variations (Firebird) Pantomime I Ballet Premiered Pas de deux (Firebird and Ivan Tsarevich) 6/25/1910 in Paris Pantomime II Ballets Russes at Paris Opéra Scherzo (Dance of the Princesses) Gabriel Pierné, conductor Pantomime III Rondo (Khorovod) Suite Premiered Infernal Dance 10/24/1945 at the Metropolitan Opera House Lullaby (Firebird) in New York City Final Hymn no pause between movements

Turn over for more info Brief remarks by Emily Melendes, harp

MAURICE RAVEL Born: 3/7/1875 in Ciboure, near St-Jean-de-Luz, Basses-Pyrénées, France Died: 12/28/1937 at age 62 in Paris LA VALSE 13 min

Written Orchestral Version Premiered 1919–20, at age 44 12/12/1920 in Paris Lamoureux Orchestra Two-Piano Version Premiered Camille Chevillard, conductor 10/23/1920 at the Kleiner Konzerthaussaal in at a concert of Arnold Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances Ravel and Alfredo Casella, piano

20 min INTERMISSION

Meet & greet Share a photo Refreshments some of the musicians @TheOrchNow available in the West Gallery at the back of the theatre #TheOrchNow or at Bar Thalia on the lower level WiFi: Sharp Guest Restrooms located at the back of the theatre.

Brief remarks by William Kaufman, percussion

MODEST MUSSORGSKY Born: 3/21/1839 in Toropets, Russia Died: 3/28/1881 at age 42 in St. Petersburg, Russia PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION 33 min

Written Movements For piano in 1874, at age 35, inspired by Promenade images by Viktor Hartmann The Gnome Arranged for orchestra by Ravel in 1922 Promenade The Old Castle Ravel Arrangement Premiered Promenade 10/19/1922 at the Paris Opera Tuileries Serge Koussevitzky, conductor Bydło (Polish Ox-Cart) Promenade Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle The Marketplace at Limoges Catacombs: Roman Burial Place With the Dead in a Dead Language The Hut on Chicken Feet (Baby-Yaga) The Great Gate of Kiev

All timings are approximate.

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