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Center for Performing Arts
International talent. Local venue.
Experience Baltimore County’s Premiere Performing Arts Center
Fall 2013 season features:
David Broza, Nov. 21
Spanish, Hebrew & English music for the soul
Tchaikovsky
Cinefest, Oct. 3, 6, 9, & 14
Jewish-themed films from around the world
lovely and rather melancholy, which gives
the pianist opportunity to show his poetic side. After the middle development
section, this melancholy theme appears
again, now soaring rhapsodically.
Movement two rocks gently on a
poignant, lullaby-like theme, introduced
by the flute. Sparkling, high-speed music fills the movement’s middle section.
Its rollicking tune, introduced by the
violins, is from a French song popular
in Russia at the time, “Il faut s’amuser,
danser et rire” (“One should enjoy
oneself, dance and laugh”). This was a
favorite of the Belgian singer Désirée
Artôt, the only woman Tchaikovsky
ever fell in love with.
The spirited rondo finale features a
dashing refrain theme whose emphatic
rhythms stress the second beat of each
measure. It alternates with a rapturous waltz melody, introduced by the
violins. A broad concluding coda energetically combines these themes, with
the waltz ultimately dominating. And
now comes one of the most famous of
all virtuoso piano passages: a flight of
fast double-fisted octaves, sweeping up
and down the keyboard. This leads to
a grand apotheosis of the waltz, before
the pianist and orchestra urge each
other on to a blazing finish.
Shirlala, Oct. 20
Mama Doni, Dec. 1
Spirited music
for young families
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Instrumentation: Two flutes, two oboes,
two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns,
two trumpets, three trombones, timpani
and strings.
For information, please call 410-323-5500, ext. 3091 or
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Notes by Janet E. Bedell, Copyright ©2013
RPCS • 5204 RoLAnD Avenue • BALTiMoRe, MD 21210
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