Name: Festival Orchestra: Gil Shaham, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel
Start: 2023-08-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Benedict Music Tent

Organization

Aspen Music Festival

Direzione d'orchestra

Patrick Summers

Strumento

Gil Shaham

Violin

Orchestra

The Aspen Festival Orchestra

Festival Orchestra: Gil Shaham, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel

Aspen

Stati Uniti

Benedict Music Tent

Public

La piccola volpe astuta

An Act of Resistance

Concerto per violino in re maggiore, op. 35

Le allegre marachelle di Till Eulenspiegel, op. 28

Approvato

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Continuo

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianista

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Suonatore di flauto

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinista

Violino Piccolo Player

Violista

Altro

Ballando

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Chorus Director

Composizione

Coreografia

Coro

Costumi

Direzione del coro

Docente di canto

Drammaturgia

Emittente radiotelevisiva

Extra

Illustrator

Insegnante

Libretto

Luci

Maestro ripassatore

Orchestra Operations

Parrucco

Photographer

Poet

Produzione esecutiva

Recitazione

Regia

Scenografia

Stage Manager

Suono

Traduzione

Trucco

Video

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Cantante

Basso-baritono

Soprano

Tenore

Baritono

Mezzosoprano

Basso

Controtenore

Alto

Mimi

Narrazione

Voce bianca

Gil Shaham returns! His impeccable technique, radiant stage presence, and infectious joy in music-making have made him one of the foremost violinists in the world and a perennial Aspen favorite. Hear him in Korngold’s brilliantly orchestrated, richly romantic, and technically challenging Violin Concerto. With themes drawn from the composer’s film scores, the piece showcases the highest range of the instrument where it sings with a pure, ethereal voice.

The program opens with the suite from Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen. The work begins with an orchestral tone poem depicting a shimmering natural world of buzzing and dancing insects, a pipe-smoking badger, a frog failing to catch a mosquito, and the vixen herself captured by a woodsman. The second movement follows seamlessly with music representing the woodsman’s barnyard. In an orchestral interlude, the vixen dreams of sexual awakening and then tries to rouse the hens to their own feminist movement. After her effort fails, she enjoys a chicken dinner instead and then escapes to the forest.

Joel Thompson, composer-in-residence at Houston Grand Opera known for his acclaimed opera The Snowy Day, will be represented by An Act of Resistance, his first orchestral piece. In five compact minutes, Thompson depicts a battle between love and conflict. Listen for the surprise ending!

In Richard Strauss’s day, it was common to attribute grandiose spiritual or philosophical meanings to music, and for composers to write serious, intense works that tried to capture the extremes of human experience. Strauss’s own Death and Transfiguration is a case in point. By contrast, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks is a colorful chronicle of the misadventures of a popular German peasant folk hero. When asked whether he had any “metaphysical” intentions in Eulenspiegel, Strauss replied, “Oh, no - I only wanted to give the people in the concert hall a good laugh for once.”

Enjoy an Artist Dinner with Shaham on Wednesday, August 2, teach young violinists at Harris Concert Hall Class on Tuesday, August 8, or see his recital on Wednesday, August 9.

English

Festival Orchestra: Gil Shaham, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel by Janáček, Thompson, Joel, Korngold, Strauss, dom 06 ago 2023, Da (2023/2023), Direttore d'orchestra Patrick Summers, Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Stati Uniti

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