Hilliard Lyons Classics Series
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Friday,
September 07, 2007
8:30 PM - Whitney Hall
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Jorge
Mester, Conductor
Howard Shelley, piano
Bedrich Smetana The Bartered
Bride Overture
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano
Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, op. 30
Silvestre Revueltas La Noche de los Mayas (Night of the Mayas)
Fanfara’s program celebrates return. Tonight the Louisville Orchestra renews its relationship with its music director and audience. At the same time, the pieces on this program were written at points of return for the composers. Smetana wrote his opera The Bartered Bride upon returning to Prague after working in Sweden for several years. Rachmaninoff returned to composing piano concertos with this piece—his third of four piano concertos—written for a trip to the U.S. Mexican composer Revueltas had traveled back and forth to the U.S. and to Spain; returning home, he immersed himself more deeply in his country’s ancient culture by scoring the music for the film La Noche de los Mayas. (For full program notes click here)
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