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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2019 AT 3 PM

STRAVINSKY!
Ballet & Theater Music

Principal Clarinet, Met Orchestra

Principal Trombone
Met Orchestra

Principal Trumpet
Canadian Brass

“His interpretive power is unquestioned.” — The New York Times

“A real poet of the piano.” — BBC Radio 3

“Poised and monstrously talented” — Philadelphia Inquirer

Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society

Principal Bassoon
Orpheus

FEATURING

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

This special event will feature music from three of Stravinsky’s iconic theater works. The dazzling Piano Suite from Petrushka was inspired by the music from his groundbreaking 1911 ballet, and the neoclassic Suite Italienne for violin and piano was adapted from Stravinsky’s charming and witty score for his 1923 ballet Pulcinella. The afternoon will culminate with a fully narrated, choreographed performance of Stravinsky’s seminal 1918 theater work, The Soldier’s Tale, the Faustian tale of a young soldier who makes a deal with the Devil.

PROGRAM

Igor Stravinsky

Three Movements from Petrushka
Andrew Tyson, piano

Igor Stravinsky

Suite Italienne
Benjamin Beilman, violin; Andrew Tyson, piano

Igor Stravinsky

The Soldier’s Tale
Benjamin Luxon, narrator; Anni Crofut, dancer; Instrumental Septet

Watch Anni Crofut dance the Tango, Waltz, and Ragtime from Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale”:
 

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