"Fantastical Creatures in Russian Orchestral Music"
Date:
Sunday, November 2, 2008 7:00 pm
Venue:
MacPhail Center for Music
501 South 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401
Phone: (612) 321-0100
Contact person at MacPhail - Josh Cameron
Rehearsals:
Saturday October 25
9:00am - 12:00
Brimhall School
1744 County Road B West, Roseville, MN 55113
Saturday November 1
9:00am - 12:00 at MacPhail
Conductor:
Marina Liadova
Repertoire:
(Linked program notes are in .pdf files in English and Russian)
- Tchaikovsky. Trepak from Nutcracker and A Song of a Gypsy Girl (Lynne Gardow)
- Glinka. March from Ruslan and Liudmila
- Rimsky-Korsakov. The Filght of the Bumblebee
- Liadov.Kikimora and Two Movements from 8 Russian songs
- Prokofiev. March from The Love for Three Oranges and Menuet from Summer Night Suite
- Shostakovich. Polka (Bureaucrat) from the ballet Bolt
- Schnittke. Bureacrat from Gogol Suite
- Rachmaninoff. Chanson Georgienne (Lynne Gardow, mezzo-soprano)
- Mussorgsky. Hut on Chicken Legs from the Pictures at an Exhibition
- Khachaturian. - Waltz from Masquerade
All parts will be mailed to the musicians by September 20.
If you are available to play for this concert and both rehearsals, please send your picture by regular mail or email and a short bio for the website and for the program.
To send electronically:
To send by regular mail:
Marina Liadova
1441 Primrose Curve
Roseville, MN 55113
Questions?
e-mail:
Phone: (612) 203-8227
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