We’re in the Sottile Theater of the College of Charleston for a concert by the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra with conductor Stefan Asbury from the 2013 season. The program has two familiar masterworks serving as bookends – the Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol as an opener and the Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances to close the concert – and in between a suite of ballet music from the Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok. All three works serve as ideal showpieces for the abilities of this ensemble.
Listen to the entire program: Spoleto Festival Orchestra
Billboard and introduction to Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Sottile Theater of the College of Charleston by Lauren Rico, with comments from conductor Stefan Asbury.
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio espagnol
Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Introduction to the Bartok score for The Wooden Prince ballet - Lauren Rico
BARTOK -- The Wooden Prince
Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Comments from Asbury with an introduction to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dance – Lauren Rico
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances
Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Introduction to faculty recital by pianist Louis Goldstein, which took place in Brendle Recital Hall of the Scales Fine Arts Center at Wake Forest – Lauren Rico
BACH, - Prelude and Fugue in F#
HAYDN, - Sonata in C Major
SCHUBERT - Impromptu No. 4
Brendle Recital Hall of the Scales Fine Arts Center at Wake Forest
Pianist Louis Goldstein
End of the show – Lauren Rico and Mike McKay