Boston Symphony Orchestra

Another evening out in Boston with friends !
Thanks David, Stephen, and Jack for inviting me along.
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As is always the case
our evening started with a Delicious dinner in the south end.
We met up at
ANCHOVIES
433 Columbus Ave.

Located in Boston's Historic South End, Anchovies is an eclectic neighborhood favorite that is hard to forget. Featuring an extensive menu, late hours, and arguably the best bar around, it's a great place to gather after work, for a casual dinner, meeting friends out ... Anchovies is for all of that and more.

 

Boston Magazine's Best of Boston 2010
While many local restaurants have adopted upscale comfort food of late, Anchovies has always been both low-key and low-priced. Neighbors inhale the giant plates of pasta and hearty pizzas, along with their infamous "Italian nachos." It's easy to get in and out for just $20 bucks a person (including a martini), making it a true weeknight joint.

My selection from the varied menu items this evening was a delicious :

Penne with Shrimp
Served in a puttanesca sauce of tomato, olives, capers, or anchovies

  * ANCHOVIES *

A very affordable Italian comfort food in casual atmoshere served until 1:30 AM every day.

http:// www.anchoviesboston.com  

	...and yes folks I did have a martini !  ENJOY !

This evenings performance ....

Marcelo Lehninger

http://www.marcelolehninger.com

* Conducting *

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MAURICE  RAVEL

"MOTHER GOOSE" SUITE

Pavane of the Sleeing Beauty

Tom Thumb

Laideronette, Emress of the agodas

Conversations of Beauty and the Beast

The Rairy Garden
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 Ravel established himself first as an enfant terrible; by the time he wrote his Mother Goose Suite he was an influential and mature composer, his reputation based largely on his works for solo piano. His five-movement Mother Goose Suite, originally a piano duet written for the young children of close friends, depicts scenes from French fairy tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Beauty and the Beast. Ravel orchestrated the suite when he expanded the score for a 1912 ballet production.  

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IGOR  STRAVINSKY
CONCERT FOR PIANO AND WINDS

Largo -- Allegro

Largo

Allegro

*PETER SERKIN*
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Serkin-Peter.htm

Stravinsky used the piano as the starting point for much of his compositional thinking.  In the early 1920s, for practical reasons, he began putting himself forward as a soloist, as a direct result of which he wrote the Concerto for Piano and Winds, his first major solo vehicle for himself. One of the first and most important examples of Stravinsky's neo-classical style, the Piano Concerto is in three movements, its piano writing crisp and brilliant with a sharp and syncopated rhythmic language influenced not only by Bach and Handel but also by jazz and ragtime.  Stravinsky's use of an orchestra of winds and double basses creates a striking and austere sound world.  

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DMITRI   SHOSTAKOVICH

SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MINOR, OPUS 47

Moderato

Allegretto

Largo

Allegro non troppo

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Dmitri Shostakovich made a name for himself with his Symphony No. 1 at age nineteen and within just a few years had created  a startlingly mature and diverse body of work, including the very successful opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.  In 1936 a high-profile condemnation of this opera was published in the state newspaper Pravda, leading the composer to abandon his Fourth Symphony in the midst of rehearsals for it's premiere.  He turned instead to a triumphant new work, the powerful and dramatic Fifth,  completed quickly in spring 1937 and destined for both official acceptance and long-lasting public success.

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The Program in Brief...

Maurice Ravel and the Russian-born Igor Stravinsky became close colleagues in the second decade of the 1900s, when both came into the orbit of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and helped define Paris as the world's center of musical innovations for more than two decades before and after World War I  Dmitri Shostakovic, a generation younger than Stravinsky and Ravel, emerged as the most significant composer working in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

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