The opening of the first concert of the 2022/2023 season will belong to two composers of the same age, who used the theme of the children's world in their compositions, although each in a different way. In the beginning, you will hear the five-part orchestral suite My Mother Goose by the French composer Maurice Ravel. After that, a ballad for mezzo-soprano and orchestra will be performed . Otakar's orphaned child Ostrčila to the words of folk poetry. The program will end with one of the most performed works of Russian romanticism – the symphonic suite Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who drew inspiration from the collection of Arabian fairy tales One Thousand and One Nights .