Youth Orchestra’s Winter Concert
Event Details:
Location: San Leandro Performing Arts Center - Arts Education Center
Date: Sunday, February 21, 2016
Time: 2:00pm
Program:
Hailstork American Fanfare
Michael Morgan, conductor
Sibelius Finlandia
(Side-by-side with MUSE VIVO Orchestra)
Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C Minor
Omid Zoufonoun
Youth Orchestra Director
MUSE VIVO Orchestra
Beethoven’s iconic Symphony that changed the course of music history caps off a program of intriguingly iconoclastic works by other composers. Similarly, Borodin used folk dances of his fatherland as evocative inspiration for the exotic closing scene of his opera,Prince Igor.
Audio and video clips:
Sibelius: Finlandia
A powerful reading that achieves both clarity and a necessary hugeness of sound. Neemi Järvi with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic.
It should of course also be heard in its original form with chorus.
Beethoven Symphony No.5
Still regarded by many to be the definitive recording of this iconic work, Carlos Kleiber's performance with the Vienna Philharmonic creates a perfect arc from the famous opening motive until through the triumphant finale.
1. Allegro con brio
2. Andante con moto
3. Allegro
4. Allegro