Stefan Asbury and TMC Conducting Fellows conduct Price, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Stefan Asbury and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Conducting Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in this eclectic program. Lost for decades and rediscovered in 2009, Florence Price’s folk-music-tinged 1932 suite Ethiopia’s Shadow in America portrays an enslaved man’s spiritual journey from the time of his arrival on this continent. Béla Bartók’s brilliantly lurid ballet score The Miraculous Mandarin is an astonishing feat of musical storytelling and imaginative orchestration. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s absorbing and emotionally wide-ranging Symphony No. 2 harks back to the late 19th century but at the same time is characterized by Rachmaninoff’s unique gifts for expansive melody and careful musical architecture.
Gates open at 6:30pm
Performance Details
Aug 14, 2022, 8:00pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Ethiopia’s Shadow in America
Listeners familiar with Price’s other orchestral music will be pleased to encounter her characteristically lush orchestration, harmonic richness, and, above all, keen melodic sense.
Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
Béla Bartók’s ballet score The Miraculous Mandarin is an orchestral kaleidoscope depicting the ballet’s lurid, supernatural narrative of kidnapping and murder. Bartók’s unique sound-world, fully on display here, was deeply colored by his study of Central European folk music as well as by the Europea...
Symphony No. 2
By the time he came to write his Second Symphony, Rachmaninoff had become such a celebrity in Moscow—as composer, pianist, and conductor—that he found he had to “escape” in order to be able to compose without interruption.
