2019 Repertoire Highlights
We are pleased to announce the repertoire highlights for the coming 2019 Marrowstone Music Festival. From the unrequited love of a Russian puppet in Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka, to the “three symphonic sketches” of Debussy’s La mer, to William Grant Still’s blues-inspired Afro-American Symphony, this year’s selection will showcase a range of composers, cultures and techniques that will challenge and delight both students and concertgoers alike.
Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Claude Debussy: La mer
Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Maurice Ravel: La valse
Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemaya
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherezade
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka
William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony
2018 Repertoire Highlights
Richard Wagner: Overture to the Flying Dutchman
Manuel de Falla: Suites from the Three Cornered Hat
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel Lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Dimitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastorale”
Giuseppe Verdi: Triumphal March and Ballet Music from “Aida”
Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Op. 18
Richard Strauss: Suite from “Rosenkavalier,” Op. 59
2017 Repertoire Highlights
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes
Claude Debussy: Prelude Die Meistersinger
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonie Concertante
Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to Nabucco
Ottorino Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole
Aaron Copland: “The Tender Land”
George Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
2016 Repertoire Highlights
Ottorino Respighi: Trittico Boticelliano
Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in D minor, Op. 44
Benjamin Britten: Prelude and Fugue for Strings
Gian-Carlo Menotti: “The Telephone”
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture in C, Op.24
Ned Rorem: Eleven Studies for Eleven Players
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in E Major, Op. 22
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Suite from “On the Waterfront”
Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber
Franz Liszt: Orpheus
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada Suite
Leoš Janáček: Sinfonietta
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
