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‘Biennale Snapshots’ with La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

  • Mandeville Auditorium La Jolla, CA (map)

La Jolla concert series: Pictures at an Exhibition

Guest conductor Michael Gerdes leads a perennial favorite, Pictures at an Exhibition, composed when Mussorgsky was 35. That should have been the midpoint of a great career, but–tragically–he was dead only seven years later. LJS&C Young Artists first-place winner Carlos Aguilar plays Nielsen’s Flute Concerto, a very playful (and a very funny) piece of music. Vivian Fung offers her own set of “pictures” in a colorful musical response to works of public art from the 2015 Vancouver Art Biennale.

Program

Michael Gerdes, guest conductor

Concerto for Flute / Carl Nielsen

Biennale Snapshots / Vivian Fung

Pictures at an Exhibition / Modest Mussorgsky

Guest artist

Carlos Aguilar, flute (2015 Young Artists Winner)

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