Hilliard Lyons Classics Series
Thank you to Mrs. Macauley Smith for her gernerous additional sponsorship of the Balanchine Concert.
Friday,
September 28, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
8:00 PM - Brown Theatre
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Jorge
Mester, Conductor
Lee Luvisi, piano
Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau
de Couperin
Paul Hindemith The Four
Temperaments (Theme and Variations)
Georges Bizet Symphony
No. 1 in C Major
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The three pieces on this concert sparkle with vitality as they reveal the composers’ concern with life. Ravel’s suite of dances pays tribute to both an older composer as well as to friends who lost their lives in World War I. Hindemith’s Four Temperaments is a musical depiction of the four humors or temperaments asserted by Hippocrates. The concert closes with Bizet’s lively symphony, written when he was only 17. The three works are Classical in design; Bizet’s is naturally so as the boy was still learning the craft of composition and modeled his work on pieces by Mozart and Schubert. Hindemith and Ravel, both writing in the first decades of the twentieth century, were consciously employing musical designs popular from earlier eras.
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