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| | Our family concert will celebrate composers both dead and alive. Living composer Nathaniel Stookey’s piece, The Composer is Dead, will delight patrons of all ages. Dance away with Angelica by Maestro Amaya, inspired by the tales of Charlemagne. Listen to Death and Transfiguration by J. Strauss depicting an artist in his deathbed reflecting on his life when at the end he receives the longed-for transfiguration “From the infinite reaches of heaven.” We will also feature this year’s Young Concerto Competition Winner.
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| | What would movies be without music? Join us as we perform some of the most unforgettable classical scores used in films including Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries, immortalized in the film Apocalypse Now, and Ravel’s Bolero, in the hit film 10. We will of course include some of the most famous film composers of our time with selections from Jurassic Park, the Titanic, Mission Impossible, The Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. Our feature soloist will be the Minot State University Concerto Competition winner and we will also pay homage to our armed forces.
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| | Join us for our season finale when we spotlight our own Luminus Piano Trio will be the solo ensemble for Beethoven’s unique Triple Concerto.
For our second year in a row we will have a world premiere featuring our Composition Contest winner. We will explore two of the composers who belonged to the Russian Mighty Five. This group of composers, led by Rimsky-Korsakov, were seeking a true Nationalistic Russian voice. The Capriccio Espagnol based on Spanish folk melodies is one of the most popular pieces by the Russian composer. Talking about popular, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is without a doubt his most famous piano piece, it has seen many orchestrations from rock bands to the most performed orchestration by the French master orchestrator Maurice Ravel.
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