Bay Area pianist Daniel Glover will share the spotlight with
Redwood Symphony June 7 when he will play the supremely difficult pinnacle of
the piano repertoire, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, made famous in the
movie “Shine.”
The Redwood Symphony concert will begin at 8 p.m. in the
Main Theater of Cañada
College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd. at I-280, Redwood City. Maestro Eric Kujawsky
will give a pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m.
In a program for Russophiles, Rachmaninoff’s voyage into
modern music will be paired with Shostakovich’s bold First Symphony and Alfred
Schnittke’s “(K)ein Sommernachstraum (Not a Mid-Summer’s Night Dream).”
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Shostakovich’s First, one of the greatest of all first
symphonies, was completed when the wunderkind composer was just 19. Its
premiere propelled him into a maelstrom of public Soviet life under Stalin that
destroyed his health and happiness.
Schnittke, who died in 1998, also lived his
life in the shadow of the Soviet state, but he was allowed considerably more
freedom than Shostakovich. He invented “polystylism,”
seen in “(K)ein Sommersnachstraum,”
which juxtaposes many different historical styles past and present in bizarre
and comical ways.
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“Try to keep a straight face,” Kujawksy said, “as you listen to the
indignities Schnittke puts his faux-Mozart flute quartet through!”
Kristen Link will conduct the
Shostakovich.
Tickets from $10-$30 and further information are available at
RedwoodSymphony.org. Children under 18 are admitted free with an adult, and
parking is free as well.
Redwood Symphony is an all-volunteer orchestra dedicated to
the performance of ambitious, contemporary repertoire as well as the great
orchestral classics. Its
August 2012 performance of the Berlioz Requiem at Davies Symphony Hall in San
Francisco was critically acclaimed.
