Colorado Music Festival | Prokofiev 5 + Gabriela Montero Plays Tchaikovsky

Thursday, July 28
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $72.00 Concert Member)*ย 

Conductor:
Jean-Marie Zeitouni

Guest Artist:
Gabriela Montero, piano

Tchaikovskyโ€™s First Piano Concerto might never have seen the light of day โ€” the pianist for whom it was written initially declared it โ€œabsolutely unplayable.โ€ Luckily Tchaikovsky ignored this criticism, published his concerto, and unveiled what has become one of the most famous piano concertos of all time. Pianist Gabriela Montero brings her โ€œmonster technique and thrilling toneโ€ (Seattle Times) to this concerto. Principal Guest Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni returns to conduct Prokofievโ€™s masterful Fifth Symphony. โ€œI conceived of [Symphony No. 5] as glorifying the grandeur of the human spirit . . . praising the free and happy man,โ€ said Prokofiev of the uplifting symphony he composed against the backdrop of WWII. Mussorgskyโ€™s haunting and beloved Night on Bald Mountain opens this all-Russian program.

Program:
Modest Mussorgsky, Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23
โ€”
Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5, Op. 100

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