Death Valley Days
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
We'll try to generate a little much-needed heat tonight with Ferde Grofe's "Death Valley" suite. Also, Harmonica virtuoso John Sebastian brings his whimsical instrument to Heitor Villa-Lobos's fascinating Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra.
Pierre Boulez leads his group the Ensemble InterContemporain in Stravinky's "Dumbarton Oaks" concerto, which takes its name from the estate of Robert Woods Bliss, who commissioned it for his thirtieth wedding anniversary. The Norrkoeping Symphony follows that up with Max Reger's "Suite in the Olden Style"; bringing the evening to a modernistic close is the San Francisco Symphony in Vincent D'Indy's Symphony No. 2 in B-flat.
Pierre Boulez leads his group the Ensemble InterContemporain in Stravinky's "Dumbarton Oaks" concerto, which takes its name from the estate of Robert Woods Bliss, who commissioned it for his thirtieth wedding anniversary. The Norrkoeping Symphony follows that up with Max Reger's "Suite in the Olden Style"; bringing the evening to a modernistic close is the San Francisco Symphony in Vincent D'Indy's Symphony No. 2 in B-flat.
