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Stern Conducts Sibelius

Fri, 11/20/2009 8:00 PM
Lyric Theatre

Michael Stern, music director
Alon Goldstein, piano

Bartók Hungarian Sketches
Avner Dorman Piano Concerto (World premiere/KCS commission)
Sibelius Symphony No. 2

Two major patriotic works surround an exciting world premiere. Avner Dorman's new piano concerto is preceded by Béla Bartók's homage to a great Hungarian patriot, the revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, who led an attempted revolution against Austria in 1848. The tone poem recalls the heroic sounds of Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. The mighty Sibelius Symphony No. 2, written in 1899, has always been regarded as a coded hymn to the composer's beloved Finland, then under Russian domination.

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Sponsored by the Harry Portman Charitable Trust; commission underwritten by the Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation with support from the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest.
The Classical Series is sponsored by the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation.