Ivy League Club of Dallas: Dallas Symphony Orchestra
The Brown Club of North Texas invites graduates of the eight Ivy League universities to attend a special Ivy event at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra!
The Brown Club of North Texas is currently arranging a special event with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Dallas-area Ivy alumni. Details will appear on this site soon, but for now, save the date: January 9th.
Details from the DSO's website are as follows:
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Celebrate the New Year with a bang with the Dallas premiere of Stokowski's brilliantly colorful orchestration of Mussorgsky's masterwork Pictures at an Exhibition. Maestro van Zweden conducts this program, which also includes specially selected orchestral dances by J. Strauss Jr. and Brahms.
Mussorgsky/Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
J. Strauss Jr.: On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Waltz Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
J. Strauss Jr.: Pizzicato Polka
Leroy Anderson: The Typewriter
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
January 9th is Casual Fridays. Please note 7:30 p.m. start time, no intermission.
About the piece:
Mussorgsky/Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky wrote this piece as a musical tribute to his friend artist Viktor Hartmann, who died suddenly in 1873 after suffering an aneurysm. Hartmann's works were put on exhibition the following year. Mussorgsky took this as an opportunity to create a work in his honor.
This impressive work for piano opens with a Promenade, which recurs several times - with a steady pulse, but alternating tempo, it seems to suggest a veiwer wandering around the gallery, pausing to inspect pictures more closely. The DSO will perform Leopold Stokowski's 1939 orchestral arrangement of the piece.
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