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Operatic Rhapsodies

Flato Markham Theatre171 Town Centre Blvd, Markham, Ontario, ON L3R 8G5, Canada
Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de Toronto
samedi 07 février 202620:00

One of Ravel’s earliest orchestral compositions, the Rhapsodie espagnole is divided into four movements. The first features a particularly prominent motif comprising pitches F–E–D–C-sharp; the motif is all the more notable in that it returns throughout the three subsequent movements. While musical Fantasies are traditionally a single movement, Debussy’s Fantasie for piano and orchestra has three; its title instead refers to its cyclic structure: like the Rhapsodie espagnole, it uses the same themes in all three movements. Richard Strauss’ Le Bourgeois gentilhomme was originally intended to serve as the framing device for his opera Ariadne auf Naxos; when the reception for this structure was mixed, Strauss opted to remove the Bourgeois music and transform it into its own suite.

7:10 p.m.   Pre-concert talk
7:20 p.m.   Prélude: pre-concert recital.
Intermission discussion and Q&A with Mary Kenedi and Daniel Vnukowski
Post-concert reception.

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