Under Northern Skies | Feb. 9, 2019
Under Northern Skies | Feb 9, 2019
Performance at 7:30pm | Informance with Jim Miller at 6:45pm
Wayne Wildman, Music Director
A buoyant overture, a scintillating trumpet feature and a melodious and colorful suite are the complements to the brooding, dramatic and heroic Fifth Symphony of Shostakovich, an outstanding masterpiece of 20th century music and a triumph of the human spirit over political and artistic oppression.
Repertory:
Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture – Mikhail Glinka
Concert Etude – Alexander Goedicke
Suite from The Golden Cockerel – Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony # 5 – Dimitri Shostakovich
Soloist: William D. Hampton, trumpet
Don’t miss the “Informance” by Jim Miller at 6:45pm
Learn a bit of background about the pieces to be performed with local music historian Jim Miller. Please join us for this informal, pre-concert lecture in the Mertens-Kadow room.
Sponsored by:
Nash Family Foundation
The Tom & Virginia Bare Charitable Fund of
the Lakeshore Community Foundation
Mark & Michelle Klaiber
Mark Barkley Miller
Dr. Joseph E. & Rhonda Trader
Program
Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra
Wayne Wildman, Music Director
Sixty-eighth Season
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Capitol Civic Centre, Manitowoc
Under Northern Skies
featuring
Dr. William D. Hampton, trumpet
Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila | Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)
Concert Etude (Dr. Hampton) | Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957)
Suite from Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel) | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
I. Tsar Dodon in His Palace
II. Tsar Dodon on the Battlefield
III. Tsar Dodon as the Guest of Queen Shemakha
IV. Wedding Cortege and the Lamentable Death of Dodon
Interval
Symphony # 5 in D minor, Opus 47 | Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
I. Moderato
II. Allegretto
III. Largo
IV. Allegro non troppo