Name: The Greatest Show
Start: 2023-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Flato Markham Theatre

Admin

Kindred Spirits Orchestra

Conductor

Kristian Alexander

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Jonathan Crow

Violin

The Greatest Show

Markham

Canada

Flato Markham Theatre

The Greatest Show: Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant, K064 (1942) Stravinsky (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Circus Polka, K64

Violin Concerto No.2, Sz.112

Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103

Saileshwaran Thirumurthy

Approved

Stravinsky’s Circus polka, subtitled “For a Young Elephant”, was composed as a short ballet production for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth;” the ballet was originally performed by several young elephants in pink tutus! Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Crow takes the spotlight to perform Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, whose second movement—a theme and variations—is an early example of a theme employing all twelve tones of the chromatic scale. For the grand finale, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 showcases a masterwork of virtuosic orchestral sound in a work that the young composer found inspiration and encouragement from Richard Wagner—although the Wagnerian allusions were revised out of later versions

English

The Greatest Show by Stravinsky, Bartók, Bruckner, From (2023/2023), Conductor Kristian Alexander, Flato Markham Theatre, Markham, Canada

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