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Fantastic Dances: Rachmaninoff & Ravel

Name: Fantastic Dances: Rachmaninoff & Ravel
Start: 2022-05-19T14:00:00
Location: Winspear Centre

Winspear Centre

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Sergei Rachmaninoff always wanted to compose a ballet but never had the opportunity. Instead, later in life, he wrote a set of three colourful symphonic dances. Ravel originally composed La valse as a ballet, but it was considered undanceable. He published it anyway with a few descriptive phrases like “glimpses of waltzing couples,” “an immense hall,” “progressively brighter,” until finally “chandelier bursts forth.” Avner Dorman describes his c...

Program

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances

Avner Dorman - Piano Concerto No. 3

Maurice Ravel - La valse

Composer

Participants

Michael Stern

Conductor

Mackenzie Melemed

Piano

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra