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Autumn 2022 Concert 2

Concert Week

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2022

7:30     Bartok

• Focus on cleaning up #2

8:15     First Run in Concert Order

• Walker
• Bartok
• Finlandia

8:45     BREAK

9:00     Pictures at an Exhibition: ALL

NOTES:

1)  Bartok Portrait #2: Please make friends with your metronome

Basic tempo is 76-84 to the measure (subdivision 8^th notes ~228). Reminder that rests are music.

2)  While we are at it, some tempo benchmarks for Pictures

• First promenade: Quarter=96
• Gnomus: Measure = 76 (Subdivison quarter = 228)
• Tuileries: Quarter = 108
• Chickens in their shells: Quarter = 160
• Limoges: Quarter = 116

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2022

7:30     Full run in concert order

NOTES:

Some reference recordings:

Pictures at an Exhibition Piano Version

• Evgeny Kissin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_Rsl7fjok

• Vladimir Ashkenazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8z1_A-Zlbw

• This recording has the paintings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8z1_A-Zlbw

• Bartok 2 Portraits

• Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Miklós Erdélyi (with score) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUw_gYU8tzk

• George Walker Icarus in Orbit
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEdIgNy2aXc