FEATURED PROGRAM
FALLA & ESPAÑA Thursday Friday Saturday
April 13, 2017 April 14, 2017 April 15, 2017
8pm 8pm 8pm
Jones Hall
*Kazuki Yamada, conductor Brinton Averil Smith, cello Sofia Selowsky, mezzo-soprano *Houston Symphony debut
Chabrier CastelnuovoTedesco
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Did you know?
Cello Concerto, Opus 72 I Sostenuto ed appassionato II Allegretto gentile III Vivo e impetuoso
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• This is the first professional performance of Mario CastelnuovoTedesco’s Cello Concerto since its premiere in 1935 when Arturo Toscanini led the New York Philharmonic and soloist Gregor Piatigorsky. New York Times critic Olin Downes remarked, “The concerto served him as a vehicle for brilliant, yea, formidable ‘cello playing. Right worthily was he applauded and repeatedly called back to the stage.”
I N T E R M I S S I O N
Falla
El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) Introduction: Allegro ma non troppo— Part I Afternoon: Allegretto mosso— Dance of the Miller’s Wife (Fandango): Allegro ma non troppo— The Grapes: Vivo Part II The Neighbor’s Dance (Seguidillas): Allegro ma non troppo The Miller’s Dance (Farruca): Poco vivo—moderato assai— The Corregidor’s Dance: Allegretto Final Dance (Jota): Poco mosso—Allegro ritmico, molto moderato e pesante
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• Manuel de Falla included two songs for mezzosoprano in the score of The Three-Cornered Hat. These songs imitate the cante jondo style of folk music from Andalusia. Canto jondo is Andalusian dialect for “deep song.”