Join the Young Professionals of the Coulee Region for a night with the La Crosse Symphony.
YP's will meet in the ballroom at the Bentley Wheeler Center from 6-7PM instead of at Viterbo.
The evening will consist of appetizers and drinks at the Bentley Wheeler Center, just a couple of blocks from Viterbo. It will end at 7 to give enough time to get to Viterbo and seated for the show at 7:30.
Prokofiev: Symphony No.1, “Classical Symphony”
Favorite Concerto Movements with the Winners of the LSO’s “Rising Stars” Competition, Piano and Instrumental Divisions
Georges Bizet: Symphony No.1 in C
“Enfants Terribles” — “terrible twins” might be the best translation, as the city of Paris once again inspires our concert. On either side of our own stunningly talented young people, performing their winning works in the piano and instrumental categories of our annual RISING STARS competition, you’ll hear the two greatest first symphonies of all time.
The “Classical Symphony” of Sergei Prokofiev was composed just as this young Russian genius was establishing his bad-boy reputation in Paris, around the time of the Russian Revolution; it remains his most charming, beloved work. Bizet’s “Symphony in C” — his only essay in the form — was composed as a student exercise at the Paris Conservatory, for his teacher, the composer Charles Gounod; the student clearly surpassing his master, the young man who would go on to compose the immortal opera CARMEN modestly put this masterpiece away in a drawer……Not be discovered by the world until the 1930’s, it has since then become a pillar of the repertoire, with a youthfulness that never grows stale.
Saturday Mar 18, 2017
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM CDT
6:00-7:30 Reception at the Bentley Wheeler Center (950 Cass St)
7:30-9:30 Symphony.
$10.00
Jami Redenbaugh
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