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Symphony Hall Lobby – The Mighty Carmina Burana Ticket Holders
Preludes: Art Inspiring Art takes place ONE HOUR prior to the start of Opening Weekend’s The Mighty Carmina Burana.
The Phoenix Symphony is pleased to open this season’s Preludes performances with an inspirational program of musical pieces and improvisations as interpreted by Arizona State University contemporary musicians. The central theme of the program is “Art Inspiring Art.”
Opening Weekend’s first piece performed on the Symphony Hall stage is a composition by Adam Schoenberg, Picture Studies, inspired by significant artworks from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. In homage to Adam Schoenberg and Modest Mussorgsky (whose piece, Pictures at an Exhibition, Schoenberg loosely based his composition on), ASU musicians will be performing musical pieces alongside visual artwork, thus continuing the virtuous cycle of art inspiring art.
Visual Artwork:
Scene from the Tales of the Heike
Tosa School, 17th Century colors and gold on brown paper
Princeton University Art Museum
Musical Piece:
Ryo Noda (b. 1948), Maï
Visual Artwork:
The Railway Crossing, Fernand Léger (1919)
oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
Musical Piece:
Improvisation
Visual Artwork:
Le Grand Canal, Claude Monet (1908)
oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Musical Piece:
Improvisation
Visual Artwork:
Circles in a Circle (1923), Wassily Kandinsky
oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Composition (1917), Lyubov Popova
oil on paper, Berardo Collection Museum, Portugal
Dominant Curve, Wassily Kandinsky (1936) oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York
Musical Piece:
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 – 1931) Sonata in E minor, Op. 27, No. 4 for Violin
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