Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University
1531 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104
Date:
Saturday, March 14, 2009; 7:30 PM
Tickets:
$18 adult
$12 senior/student
$5 children
($16/$10 reserved in advance.)
With this concert, the MPO is going to demonstrate that there is much more to Baroque music than meets the eye. (Or would that be ear?) Since the Baroque period was really the first time orchestras were employed as a significant medium of music, it influenced all future styles of music, well into the modern era. This concert will show how even Mendelssohn and Stravinsky were influenced by composers who lived hundreds of years before them, and also how adaptable the most Baroque compositions are, lending themselves to new and refreshing incarnations.
| Composer | Work |
|---|---|
| Johann Christian Bach | Sinfonia in B-flat Major, Op. 18 No. 2 |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully | Suite from Roland |
| George Frederic Handel | Suite from Water Music |
| Felix Mendelssohn | Concertpiece No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 113 |
| Igor Stravinsky | Pulcinella Suite |
