Name: Festival Orchestra: Slatkin Conducts Copland, Gershwin
Start: 2024-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Klein Music Tent

Admin

Aspen Music Festival

Direction d'orchestre

Leonard Slatkin

Orchestra

The Aspen Festival Orchestra

Chanteur

Bruce Liu

Piano

Instrument

Pianist

Festival Orchestra: Slatkin Conducts Copland, Gershwin

Aspen

États-Unis

Klein Music Tent

Public

Concert

Oratorio

El Salón México

Concerto pour piano n° 3 en ut majeur, op. 26

Phantasmata

Adagio pour cordes

An American in Paris

Ayyappa swamy y

Valide

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Continuo

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Acteur

Autre

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choeur

Chorus Director

Chorégraphie

Coach vocal

Coiffure

Compositeur

Costumes

Danse

Diffusion

Direction de choeur

Dramaturgie

Décors

En charge de la production

Extra

Illustrator

Livret

Lumières

Maquillage

Mise en scène

Orchestra Operations

Orchestre

Photographer

Poet

Prof

Répétiteur

Stage Manager

Traduction

Video

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Basse

Mezzo-soprano

Baryton

Ténor

Soprano

Contralto

Contre-ténor

Baryton-basse

Alto

Rôle muet

Rôle parlant

Voix d'enfant

The Financial Times hailed him as “a pianist with a captivating personality,” Le Monde applauded his “magician’s fingers and soul of integrity.” Bruce Liu is the first Canadian to ever win a gold medal at the prestigious XVIII International Chopin Competition, and at 26 has already achieved rock star status in the classical music world. Hear him in Prokofiev’s high-voltage, virtuosic 3rd Piano Concerto, which the Chicago Daily Herald called “the most beautiful modern concerto for piano” at its American premiere in 1921. The last movement is especially dazzling, with pounding chords on the piano surrounded by blazing sounds from the orchestra.

The rest of the program showcases works by American composers. Copland named his catchy and infectious musical postcard El salón México for a charming Mexico City nightclub he visited in 1932 with fellow composer Carlos Chavez. The piece became an instant success both in Mexico and north of the border. Rouse’s The Infernal Machine was the result of the composer’s dream involving an enormous, eternally moving machine which grinds along and shoots off hellish sparks but ultimately has no purpose. In the midst of the changing gears, a snatch of late Beethoven bubbles to the surface with a quote from the Op. 130 String Quartet. Before its self-destruction, the machine lets off one more earsplitting, metallic gasp.

Samuel Barber’s moving Adagio for Strings is his most popular and frequently performed works. He originally composed it as the second movement of a string quartet. It’s likely that the piece owes its success to Barber’s life partner, opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Knowing that Barber had a potential hit on his hands, Menotti got the manuscript into the hands of Arturo Toscanani, who premiered it with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1938. More than an orchestral staple, this work has become a source of solace during times of national tragedy, including after JFK’s assassination, and following 9/11.

Concluding the concert is Gershwin’s jazzy depiction of his visit to Paris, complete with street noises and taxi horns brought back from that city for the work’s 1928 premiere.

Hear the extraordinary Bruce Liu in his Aspen debut in this varied and exhilarating program!

English

Festival Orchestra: Slatkin Conducts Copland, Gershwin by Copland, Prokofiev, Rouse, C., Barber, Gershwin, Du (2024/2024), Chef d'orchestre Leonard Slatkin, Klein Music Tent, Aspen, États-Unis

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