Name: Mother Goose, Symphonic Dances And More
Start: 2025-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Jacobs Music Center

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San Diego Symphony Orchestra

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Matthias Pintscher

Instrumentalist

Alexi Kenney

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Violin

Mother Goose, Symphonic Dances And More

San Diego

United States

Jacobs Music Center

Mother Goose, Symphonic Dances And More: Ma mère l´oye Suite Ravel (+2 More)

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Ma mère l´oye

Violin Concerto No.2, Sz.112

Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Jnanakumar P

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Three 20th century masterpieces!

After his emigration from Revolutionary Russia in 1918, Rachmaninoff, as one of the world’s most sought-after pianists, had little time for composing and completed only six pieces in a quarter of a century of exile. But that music is among his most beautiful and concentrated, and none more so than his elegiac final work, his Symphonic Dances, written when World War II was already underway, and the composer and his wife were living in New York City. Rachmaninoff, already sick with the lung cancer that was to kill him, spent time in a country retreat on Long Island, where the quiet and peacefulness inspired music combining intense nostalgia for an old world gone with the tremendous rhythmic energy and optimism that he so loved about America.

Conductor Matthias Pintscher begins the concert with the beautiful glittering colors of Ravel’s Mother Goose, originally conceived as a charming piano duet for adults and children to play together, and then later transformed into an orchestral ballet. And Alexi Kenney makes his Symphony debut with his “soulful and stirring” (The Pittsburgh Post Gazette) interpretation of Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a work written in the composer’s very last years in Europe before, despairing of the triumph of fascism and violence on all sides, he and his second wife emigrated to the USA. Conceived on a symphonic scale, this music speaks of the darkness and tragedy of the time, but it is also saturated with Bartók’s lifelong love and deep knowledge of the folk-music of Eastern Europe from which he drew not only musical ideas but a deep and optimistic belief in the power of ordinary people to survive suffering and oppression.

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Mother Goose, Symphonic Dances And More by Ravel, Bartók, Rachmaninoff, Fri 07 Mar 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Matthias Pintscher, Jacobs Music Center, San Diego, United States

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