RACHMANINOFF and CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOL
Friday and Saturday, September 15-16 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, September 17 at 2 p.m.
Helzberg Hall | Kauffman Center
Michael Stern, conductor
Natasha Paremski, piano
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Odna Zhizn
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnol
Music Director Michael Stern leads a trio of sensational, Russian-inspired masterpieces to launch the 2017-18 Kansas City Symphony season. From the virtuosic pyrotechnics, unforgettable melodies and lush orchestration of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto to the heartfelt homage, Odna Zhizn (A Life), by American composer Christopher Rouse, the program swells with incredible energy and life-affirming beauty. Rimsky-Korsakov wrote Capriccio espagnol as an orchestral showpiece that “was to glitter with dazzling color.”
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