Name: Festival Orchestra: Midori, Pictures At An Exhibition
Start: 2024-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Klein Music Tent

Admin

Aspen Music Festival

Director(a) orquestal

Kevin John Edusei

Orchestra

The Aspen Festival Orchestra

Instrumentista

Midori Goto

Violin

Festival Orchestra: Midori, Pictures At An Exhibition

Aspen

Estados Unidos

Klein Music Tent

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orquestal

Kafka’s Dream

Concierto para violín n.º 2, Sz. 112

Cuadros de una exposición (arr. Maurice Ravel)

Ayyappa swamy y

Válido

As a child prodigy, she was called “one in a million” by conductor Zubin Mehta. As a psychology student, she wrote a master’s thesis on pain. As an activist, she won the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum at Davos and spoke before the U.N. As a performer, she is indomitable, playing dozens of concerts a year. The one and only Midori returns to Aspen for Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto. Bartók wrote the piece in 1938 as Hungary was forming an alliance with Nazi Germany, and it’s often heard as a musical farewell to his native land. The first movement has a dark, brooding atmosphere, the second a dreamy hypnotic character, and the finale is a virtuosic showcase for the soloist full of folk-inspired melodies and rhythmic twists and turns.

Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky’s homage to the artist Victor Hartmann, was originally written as a set of piano pieces depicting 11 of Hartmann’s works, with a theme representing the composer himself as he roved through the exhibition remembering his dear friend. The idea of orchestrating the work never occurred to Mussorgsky, but it has intrigued musicians ever since his death, inspiring arrangements for rock band, brass ensemble, acoustic guitar, massed accordions, and even a re-arrangement for solo piano by Vladimir Horowitz. Ravel’s version remains the most popular, and wins the prize for sheer orchestral brilliance and ingenuity.

Opening the program is Donghoon Shin’s Kafka's Dream. Mahler and Berg are major influences on Shin’s music, and Musical America called it “powerful stuff, worth hearing again.”

Welcome back one of Aspen’s most illustrious alumnae and be swept away by the color and power of the orchestra in this varied program!

English

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