“A Festive Homecoming”

Brahms’s raucous medley of old German university songs gets our Autumn season off to a joyful start, on a concert which will culminate in Manuel de Falla’s immortally festive evocation of the colors of Spain. In between, as we should, we start off the year with a welcome back to an old friend, the brilliant young violinist Igor Pikayzen, in Max Bruch’s stunningly romantic concerto; and last but not least, Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun, a French Impressionist painting come to life.

Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26

I. Prelude: Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Finale: Allegro energico

Igor Pikayzen, violin

INTERMISSION

Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Manuel de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat

Act I
1. Introducción (Introduction)
2. La Tarde (Afternoon)
3. Danza de la molinera (Fandango) (Dance of the Miller’s Wife)
4. Las uvas (The Grapes)

Act II
1. Danza de los vecinos (Seguidillas) (Dance of the Neighbors)
2. Danza del molinero (Farruca) (Dance of the Miller)
3. Danza del corregidor (Dance of the Magistrate)
4. Danza final (Jota) (Final Dance)

SPONSORED BY: Mercer Advisors as well as Jeff & Patti Lokken