Vienna Philharmonic | Gustavo Dudamel - HD live transmission in cinemas
Tue, Aug 24 2010, 10:08AM
PROGRAM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868): Overture to “La gazza ladra”(1817)
Julián Orbón (1925-1991): “Tres versiones sinfónicas” (1954)
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Divertimento for Orchestra (1980)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): “Pavane pour une Infante défunte” (1899; 1910), “Boléro” (1928)
The finale for this year’s LUCERNE FESTIVAL in Summer couldn’t be more colorful. Gustavo Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic will frame their concluding concert withthe sound of drums: a drum roll and an insistent rhythm, respectively. Rossini’s fizzy Overture to “The Thieving Magpie” begins with a snare drum solo, while Ravel’s famous “Boléro” is based on a metrical pattern played unrelentingly by this instrument, which builds into a flagrantly erotic wave of energy. With these two pieces as pillars, the concert will also include Cuban composer Julián Orbón’s “Versiones Sinfónicas,” which pays homage to three different sound worlds: the Spanish dance of the pavane, medieval processional song, and Afro-Caribbean music. Rhythmic drive also plays a key role in Leonard Bernstein’s Divertimento, composed in 1980 for the centennial of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra and combining such dances as the waltz, mazurka, and samba, as well as the blues.
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