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Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev

Vadim Gluzman Photo: Marco Borggreve

Door time: 7:00 PM

Show time: 7:30 PM

 

Famous for inciting a riot at its 1913 premiere due to its cutting-edge compositional techniques, Stravinsky’s Rite represents “the mystery and great surge of creative power of Spring.” BBC Music Magazine has praised violinist Vadim Gluzman’s performance of Prokofiev’s acerbic Second Violin Concerto as “a thing of great beauty.” This exuberant program opens with a spirited Short Ride in a Fast Machine, of which composer John Adams asks, “You know how it is when someone asks you to ride in a terrific sports car, and then you wish you hadn’t?” 

 

Artists: 

Peter Oundjian, conductor 

Vadim Gluzman, violin 

 

Program: 

John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) 

Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 2  

Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring  

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