Name: Musical mediums: pictures at an exhibition
Start: 2024-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Music Center at Strathmore

Organization

Conductor

Piotr Gajewski

Soprano

Talise Trevigne

soprano

Singer

Zuill Bailey

Cello

National Philharmonic

Orchestra

Musical mediums: pictures at an exhibition

North Bethesda

United States

The Music Center at Strathmore

Musical mediums: pictures at an exhibition: Lilacs Walker,George (+2 More)

Public

Private

Lilacs

Tales of Hemingway

Pictures at an Exhibition, arr. Maurice Ravel

Approved

Great art begets great music in this program of works inspired by poetry, prose, and paintings conducted by Maestro Piotr Gajewski. George Walker’s Lilacs puts to magnificent music the words of Walt Whitman’s 1865 poem, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.” Soprano Talise Trevigne invigorates this Pulitzer Prize-winning piece for solo soprano and orchestra. Cellist Zuill Bailey returns to the NatPhil stage for Tales of Hemingway. He won a Grammy for Best Solo Performance in 2017 for this four-movement reimagining of the works of Ernest Hemingway. 

From words to watercolors, the program ends with Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, arranged by Maurice Ravel. Inspired by an exhibition of drawings and watercolors by Viktor Hartmann, Pictures at an Exhibition moves audiences through a musical story, inviting listeners to let their imaginations run wild through Mussorgsky’s sonic landscape.

English

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