Gilligan Redux
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Bob Dylan refashioned an old California Pioneer tune for his "Days of 49" — but it's probably more famous as the melody of the "Gilligan's Island" theme song. "Gilligan" composer Jack Marshall recycled that tune once again (in classical mode) for his "Goldrush Suite"; we'll hear it tonight from the Capitol Saxophone Quartet.
Another Suite on the menu tonight is Sibelius's folksy pageant suite, the "Karelia" (Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic). Maurizio Pollini plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto; later on we'll hear Leon Fleischer in an excerpt from Mozart's Piano Concerto in A. Igor Stravinsky conducts his own neo-classical Symphony in C, followed by a birthday tribute to violinist/conductor Itzhak Perlman: André Previn leads the Pittsburgh Symphony as Perlman returns us to Sibelius with the Violin Concerto in D Minor.
Another Suite on the menu tonight is Sibelius's folksy pageant suite, the "Karelia" (Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic). Maurizio Pollini plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto; later on we'll hear Leon Fleischer in an excerpt from Mozart's Piano Concerto in A. Igor Stravinsky conducts his own neo-classical Symphony in C, followed by a birthday tribute to violinist/conductor Itzhak Perlman: André Previn leads the Pittsburgh Symphony as Perlman returns us to Sibelius with the Violin Concerto in D Minor.
