Pianist

Audiences can anticipate a highly-charged, exhilarating evening at the Terrace Theater when the symphony embarks on a thrilling musical pilgrimage through fire and ice and passion. We welcome back the Silver-Garburg piano duo, who return to join Long Beach Camerata Singers and South Bay Children’s Choir in the exuberant orchestral panorama of Carl Orff’s pulsating Carmina Burana.

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Carmina Burana

Kennedy Center

In a stunning season finale, lovers of piano concertos will rejoice as the acclaimed Israeli born Silver-Garburg piano duo interpret 2 concertos for 2 pianos by Bach and Poulenc. The program concludes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and its hauntingly beautiful violin passages that portray the woman who convinced a Sultan to spare her life by telling him one-thousand-and-one stories of Arabian nights.

Scheherazade

 The mesmerizing four hands of the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo come to life as the pair of pianists perform together on one piano. They are performing the World Premiere of a work written for them and the Santa Barbara Symphony by German composer Richard Dunser, a reimagining of a romantic work by Johannes Brahms, which was in fact a reimagining of a work by his mentor Robert Schumann. Dunser says that, unlike an arranger, he approached this as a new composition: “Ideally, the composer who is working on the piece sees to new instrumentation already laid out in the original work, like Michelangelo in the quarry of Carrara already selected the marble blocks in such a way that they were ideal for the planned sculptures, indeed he has already ‘seen’ the new work into the stone’s structures.” While the work is rooted in melodic music from the Romantic period, we can expect a few unexpected twists.  Mendelssohn’s “Scottish Symphony” evokes Scotland’s rugged, misty and dramatic terrain. The opening of the introduction, while not attempting to depict the scene, was inspired by a visit to Holyrood Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots, was crowned. Mendelssohn was also a composer from the Romantic period, a time when emotions and melodies were incorporated into the music. Mendelssohn wrote to his family,  “In the deep twilight we went to the palace where Queen Mary lived and loved … The adjoining chapel is now roofless; grass and ivy grow abundantly in it; and before the ruined altar, Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland. Everything around is broken and mouldering, and the bright sky shines in. I believe I found the beginning of my Scottish Symphony there today.”

Gil Garburg

Pianist

Events

Mar 11, 2023

Carmina Burana · Long Beach Symphony

Jun 4, 2022

Scheherazade · Long Beach Symphony

23 - 24 Apr, 2022

Romance in a New Key · Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra

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