Gabriela Martinez Plays Chopin
Plus, Music of Mussorgsky & Prokofiev
Join us on Jan. 10-12 when Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez makes a welcome return to Pacific Symphony to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Her artistry has been hailed by The New York Times as “elegant” and “incisive.”
Guest conductor David Danzmayr leads the orchestra in Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 7 and Mussorgsky’s bewitching “Night on Bald Mountain.”
HAL & JEANETTE SEGERSTROM FAMILY FOUNDATION CLASSICAL SERIES
Chopin’s Piano Concerto
Thu, Fri & Sat • Jan. 10-12 at 8 p.m.
Preview Talk with Alan Chapman at 7 p.m.
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
David Danzmayr, conductor • Gabriela Martinez, piano • Pacific Symphony
The concert opens with Mussorgsky’s tone poem “Night on Bald Mountain” in a colorful arrangement by Rimsky-Korsakov. The work, which depicts a witches’ Sabbath, was included in the famous Walt Disney film, “Fantasia.”
Composer Robert Schumann hailed the young Frédéric Chopin with the words, “Hats off, gentlemen—a genius!” It was a quality that imbued Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E minor with spectacular virtuosity and beauty.
Capping the program will be Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 7. His final symphony is filled with freshness and energy; the composer Dmitri Kabalevsky called it “joyful, lyrical and delightful.”
Concert sponsors: Michelle F. Rohé Distinguished Pianists Fund • Symphony 100
Conductor sponsors: Sam and Lyndie Ersan
