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PIANO POWER by John DeMain Our final concert in the season, which, by the way,
ending. I am also a huge fan of Stravinsky and
is usually choral, was changed this year because
his music, and have been searching for the
we had a chance to bring back the great pianist
right moment to perform this work. Stravinsky
Yefim Bronfman. His awesome command of every
composed Petrushka in between his phenomenally
facet of piano technique is ideally suited for the
successful Firebird, and his epic Rite of Spring.
big technical demands of Brahms’s first concerto.
Having a puppet as the central figure involved in
But first, our program begins with one of the great
a love triangle, who is slain and then returns as a
overtures, Weber’s Euryanthe Overture, which we
ghost, is the theme of this ballet. Stravinsky later
haven’t played in quite some time. This is another
made a suite from this music, and that is what we
one of those situations where the opera failed due
are performing. This vibrant and brilliantly rhythmic
to a convoluted libretto, though possessing some
score for a large orchestra makes considerable
fine music, and the overture remains and is a hit
demands on the players, who always, at least in
with the public.
the MSO, love a challenge.
This will be followed by Stravinsky’s Petrushka, an exuberant ballet that, nevertheless, has a sad John DeMain, Conductor Yefim Bronfman, Piano Weber Overture from Euryanthe Stravinsky Petrushka Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
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Program Notes Excerpt to discover more, visit madisonsymphony.org/ bronfman Euryanthe contains some of Weber’s finest music... It has been produced and recorded a few times in the last few decades, but despite the best efforts of Weber’s later champions, the opera Euryanthe is known today primarily for its fine overture. – Michael Allsen
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Louise and Ernest Borden
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