Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday, April 26, 2025 - 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 2:30 pm
Pre-Concert talk: 6:30 pm / 1:30 pm
Performed at Willson Auditorium
Artists:
Norman Huynh, conductor
Dana Dominguez, marimba
Concert Program:
SHEKHAR: Lumina
PUTS: Marimba Concerto
I. “… terrific sun on the brink”
II. “… into the quick of losses”
III. “… logarithms, exponents, the damnedest of metaphors”
Dana Dominguez, marimba
I N T E R M I S S I O N
MUSSORGSKY (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
Promenade
I. Gnomus
Promenade
II. The Old Castle
Promenade
III. Tuileries
IV. Bydło
Promenade
V. Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells
VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
VII. Limoges
VIII. Catacombs
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
IX. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
X. The Great Gate of Kiev
This concert unfolds slowly with Shekhar’s Lumina, a delicately beautiful piece that imagines a journey from darkness into light. Principal Percussionist Dana Dominguez, a Bozeman favorite, is featured with a marimba playing Grammy Award-winning composer Puts’ Marimba Concerto. This piece is a favorite of our music director and features the marimba in both melodic and ornamental roles alongside the orchestra. Finally, experience Ravel’s epic orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition, a musical tour of artworks by Russian architect and painter Viktor Hartmann that one of Ravel’s chroniclers once described as a “dazzling array of instrumental colour.”
Program Notes
Concert Sponsors:
Cal & Tricia DeSouza, Conductor’s Circle
Donald B. Gimbel, Conductor’s Circle
Gary Kunis & Connie Wong, Conductor’s Circle
Lynn & Chip Rinehart, Presenter’s Circle