Inside the Classics: The Puppet Master–—Stravinsky’s Petrushka feb 16 Minnesota Orchestra Sarah Hicks, conductor | Sam Bergman, host and viola Inside the Classics Saturday, February 16, 2019, 8 pm | Orchestra Hall Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka was one of three major ballet scores the legendary Russian composer wrote for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris during the years 1910 to 1913. Sandwiched in between the lush, evocative Firebird and the revolutionary Rite of Spring, Petrushka is perhaps the least well known of the three, but singularly fascinating both as a musical work and a historical milepost of that fraught and divisive period of European history. On the first half of tonight’s performance, host Sam Bergman and conductor Sarah Hicks will delve into the history and controversy of this seminal ballet, and feature additional music by Richard Wagner, Maurice Ravel and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Orchestra will perform Petrushka in full after intermission. Igor Stravinsky Petrushka ca. 34’ Meet the Musicians Onstage: Following tonight’s concert, the audience is invited to join Minnesota Orchestra musicians onstage for conversation and beverages after the stage is cleared. Igor Stravinsky with Vaslav Nijinsky as Petrushka, 1911. 37 FEBRUARY 2019 MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA
Minnesota Orchestraminnesotaorchestra.org/.../1819/ITC_petrushka.pdfIgor Stravinsky Petrushka ca. 34’ Meet the Musicians Onstage:Following tonight’s concert, the audience is invited
Inside the Classics: The Puppet Master–—Stravinsky’s Petrushka
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Minnesota OrchestraSarah Hicks, conductor | Sam Bergman, host
and viola
Inside the Classics
Saturday, February 16, 2019, 8 pm | Orchestra Hall
Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka was one of three major ballet scores
the legendary Russian composer wrote for SergeiDiaghilev’s Ballets
Russes in Paris during the years 1910 to 1913. Sandwiched in
between the lush, evocativeFirebird and the revolutionary Rite of
Spring, Petrushka is perhaps the least well known of the three, but
singularlyfascinating both as a musical work and a historical
milepost of that fraught and divisive period of European history.On
the first half of tonight’s performance, host Sam Bergman and
conductor Sarah Hicks will delve into the historyand controversy of
this seminal ballet, and feature additional music by Richard
Wagner, Maurice Ravel and NikolaiRimsky-Korsakov. The Orchestra
will perform Petrushka in full after intermission.
Igor Stravinsky Petrushka ca. 34’
Meet the Musicians Onstage: Following tonight’s concert, the
audience is invited to join Minnesota Orchestramusicians onstage
for conversation and beverages after the stage is cleared.
Igor Stravinsky with Vaslav Nijinsky as Petrushka, 1911.
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Sarah Hicks, conductor
Sam Bergman joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 2000. In addition
to performing as violist, he serves as host andwriter for the
Orchestra’s Insidethe Classics concert series, andhe also hosts the
Orchestra’sSymphonic Adventures programsfor high school audiences.
In recent years he has performedas a guest or substitute
musicianwith ensembles including the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra,Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra,Chicago Symphony
Orchestra,IRIS Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and
PhiladelphiaOrchestra. He has appeared inmany Minnesota
Orchestrachamber music concerts, including a performance
earlierthis month of Bacewicz’s PianoQuintet No. 1. He has
writtenfrequently for the Orchestra’swebsite, including a series
ofposts about the historic Cubatour in 2015. More:
minnesotaorchestra.org.
Sam Bergman, host and viola
Sarah Hicks, the Minnesota Orchestra’s principal conductorof
Live at Orchestra Hall, has leda broad range of programs
sincejoining the Orchestra as assistantconductor in 2006. During
theremainder of the 2018-19 season she will lead the Orchestra in
performances withDessa—to be recorded for a future album on the
Doomtreelabel—Hamilton star Renée EliseGoldsberry and Igudesman
&Joo; a Star Trek Into Darknessfilm music concert; and
Insidethe Classics programs centeredon Amy Beach’s Gaelic
Symphonyand the history of LGBT composers and performers.Away from
Orchestra Hall, sheconducts concerts this seasonwith the Antwerp
Symphony,Pittsburgh Symphony, SarasotaOrchestra, Toronto
Symphony,Dallas Symphony and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.More:
minnesotaorchestra.org.
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