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("Mountain Rainbow" (© by Jo Carson)
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Appalachian folk tunes and dreams of perfect love await us this evening as we bring the weekend to a close.
The Appalachian mountain range cuts a nearly 1,500 mile long swath through many different cultures, leaving behind a treasure trove of American folk music. We begin our evening with a movement from John Duarte’s “Appalachian Dreams” suite for Guitar, based both on indigenous folk tunes and some which crossed the Atlantic with European immigrants who settled throughout the region. The extraordinary and versatile guitarist Sharon Isbin commissioned the work, and we’ll hear her performance of it tonight.
Then it’s dreams of a different kind: Pianist Jorge Bolet channels Liszt’s “Liebesträume” (love dreams), based on poems with titles like “Perfect Love” and “Blissful Death.” Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers wakes us up with a fiery rendition of Prokofieff’s First Violin Concerto, and the Prague Chamber Orchestra entices us with Bohuslav Martinu’s “Serenade”.
Finally, we’ll send you off humming into the night with memories of Brahms’ Third Symphony, in a classic interpretation from the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.
The Appalachian mountain range cuts a nearly 1,500 mile long swath through many different cultures, leaving behind a treasure trove of American folk music. We begin our evening with a movement from John Duarte’s “Appalachian Dreams” suite for Guitar, based both on indigenous folk tunes and some which crossed the Atlantic with European immigrants who settled throughout the region. The extraordinary and versatile guitarist Sharon Isbin commissioned the work, and we’ll hear her performance of it tonight.
Then it’s dreams of a different kind: Pianist Jorge Bolet channels Liszt’s “Liebesträume” (love dreams), based on poems with titles like “Perfect Love” and “Blissful Death.” Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers wakes us up with a fiery rendition of Prokofieff’s First Violin Concerto, and the Prague Chamber Orchestra entices us with Bohuslav Martinu’s “Serenade”.
Finally, we’ll send you off humming into the night with memories of Brahms’ Third Symphony, in a classic interpretation from the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.
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