The Way of Passion
Schedule
Sat May 18 2024 at 07:30 pm
Location
New Bedford High School | New Bedford, MA
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Pre-Concert Activities start at 6:30 PM!Express Your Inner Tchaikovsky
NBSO Education Director Terry Wolkowicz will have her keyboard with her and will be giving mini-lessons to teach you how to play the famous melody from the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. NO PRIOR MUSICAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! Terry guarantees she can teach anyone to play this beautiful five-beat melody. Be sure to capture it on video so you can impress your friends! From 6:30 to 7:25 in the auditorium lobby.
The Passion and the Beauty
NBSO Violinist Travis Rapoza will be strolling around and about playing the gorgeous melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. There’s a good chance you will recognize every one of them. We guarantee you will love every one of them! Enjoy refreshments from the concessions stand, chat with friends, and be serenaded by Travis. From 6:30 to 7:25pm around and about the auditorium, lobby, and wherever else Travis wants to stroll.
Youth Orchestra Quartet Honoring Toby Monte
The NBSO’s youth orchestra program will have a quartet playing before the concert to honor Youth Orchestra Senior Conductor Tobias S. Monte who is retiring this year after 14 years at the helm. We all know Toby from the annual side-by-side performance at the NBSO’s Holiday Pops concerts. The NBSO will also be honoring Toby towards the end of intermission.
Concert:
The box office will open at 5:30 PM. You may enter the auditorium anytime after 6:30 pm. Please take your seat by 7:30 PM. To avoid any disruption during the performance, if you arrive after the music begins we will provide you with seats close to the auditorium entrance at the end of the first movement and you can take your regular seat for the second half of the concert.
Yaniv Dinur, conductor
Sergei Babayan, piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique”
Prokofiev’s second piano concerto has been described as “filled with wild passions” and Tchaikovsky gave his sixth symphony the name “Pathétique,” which from the original Russian is better translated as “passion, deep emotion.” In both these works, the composers plumb the depths of all that music can make us feel. Be prepared! The legendary Armenian-American pianist Sergei Babayan, known for his spontaneity and surprises at the keyboard, joins us for the first time.
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Where is it happening?
New Bedford High School, 230 Hathaway Blvd, New Bedford, MA 02740-2818, United States,New Bedford, MassachusettsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
