Open Rehearsals: Members are invited to a subscription concert’s final working rehearsal, typically on Thursday mornings. Schedules, repertoire, and artists are subject to change. As a courtesy to the musicians and production staff, seating may not be allowed in the rows closest to the stage. Children under the age of eight will not be admitted. Rehearsals begin promptly at the start time.
Stravinsky’s career-launching Firebird ballet score, performed in its entirety, alongside Béla Bartók’s brooding and mysterious Second Violin Concerto, a poignant farewell to his homeland, performed by First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang.
As brilliantly colored as the imagined plumage of its namesake mythical creature, The Firebird ballet score launched Igor Stravinsky’s career; the cheering audience at its Paris premiere included such luminaries as Marcel Proust, Sarah Bernhardt and Claude Debussy.
Alongside this richly hued pair of masterworks you’ll hear Béla Bartók’s brooding, mysterious Second Violin Concerto, a beautiful farewell to his homeland, written in dark days as Nazi fervor engulfed his beloved Hungary.
Program
Assiginaak
Eko-Bmijwang (As Long in Time as the River Flows)
Bartók
Violin Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky
The Firebird (complete ballet)
