Sunday, October 14, 2018 at 4pm
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church
900 Stillwater Road, Mahtomedi, MN
William Schrickel, conductor
Dominick Argento, MSO Composer Laureate
Giaochino Rossini – Overture to Il Signor Bruschino
Dominick Argento – A Ring of Time
Béla Bartók – Suite from The Wooden Prince
Read the concert program notes here.
The MSO and Music Director William Schrickel celebrate Dominick Argento’s 91st birthday by performing A Ring of Time, penned by the MSO’s Composer Laureate in 1972. Béla Bartók celebrated his first unqualified musical triumph with The Wooden Prince, a ballet premiered in his native Hungary in 1917. The dance’s story, a seemingly simple fairy tale, explores the psychological desire of a creative artist to be loved for who they are and not just for what they create. The concert opens with the overture to one of Rossini’s early (1813) one-act farces, Il Signor Bruschino.
