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Date: Saturday, December 4, 2004
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Admission: Tickets $20; students/seniors $15.
A mixture of poetry, conversation, and music by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, and Igor Stravinsky capture a moment in French history when artists and intellectuals mingled to produce an artistic revolution that culminated in Modernism.
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The program features award-winning ensemble Pacific Serenades, one of the premier chamber music organizations in Southern California. Guest conductor is Peter Grunberg, musical assistant to San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and former conductor-in-residence with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
This concert complements the exhibitions Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors and The Prismatic Palette: Four Centuries of Watercolors.
Musical Program
Eric Satie, Musique d'ameublement
Henri Duparc, La vie anterieure (setting of poem by Baudelaire)
Claude Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
(seldom-performed version for chamber orchestra)
Maurice Ravel, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Igor Stravinsky, Three Japanese Lyrics
Igor Stravinsky, Ragtime for violin, clarinet, and piano
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