May 26 & 27, 2012 Concert Details
The Mighty Horn
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Gregory Burton
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Saturday, May 26th Concert is at 8:00 p.m.
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Saturday, May 26th Concert The Trinity Anglican Church The Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 10268 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill
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Guest Artist
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| Olivia Brayley, French Horn |
About the Composers
 Richard Strauss portrays in Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks the exploits of legendary prankster, hooligan Till Eulenspiegel. A critic for the Musical Record of Boston in1900 writes: No gentleman would have written that thing. It is positively scurrilous. There are places for such music, but surely not before miscellaneous assemblages of ladies and gentlemen. Debussy writes: the work resembled an hour of music in an asylum ... You do not know whether to roar with laughter or with pain and you wonder at finding things in their customary places ....But in spite of all this, there is genius in certain aspects of the work, notably in the amazing sureness of the orchestration and in that frenzied movement which sweeps us on from beginning to end, making us live through all the hero's adventures. |
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Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf has introduced generations of children to the orchestral instruments and equally enchants the adult audience. It is a sensitive glimpse into a child’s fantasy world, with wonderful characterization through simple musical ideas and imaginative touches. It takes its musical structure from the story of the same name, with varying the motifs that describing the characters of the story
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Pyotr IlyichTchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 gained its subtitle, Little Russian, after the composer's death; it refers to the fact that many of the musical ideas echo folk songs of the Ukraine, known then to all Russians as "Little Russia'. The symphony was an immediate success and remains one of his most popular works.
Tchaikovsky writes in a letter to his father reporting on the premiere: My symphony was played here last week with great success. I was called for many times and cheered repeatedly. The success was so great that the symphony will be played again at the tenth concert, and a subscription has been started to make me a present. Also I received 300 rubles from the Musical Society. .I am delighted with all the success and the material profit that has accrued from it.
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