Concert Program V

MOTIVATED:
Invitation to the Dance

“Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.” —Charles Baudelaire

“Motivated” celebrates the vital dimension of dance in the musical art form across more than two centuries, from the Second Orchestral Suite of Johann Sebastian Bach, a collection of traditional Baroque dance forms, to Aaron Copland’s iconic twentieth-century ballet Appalachian Spring. Along the way, Schubert’s rustic Six German Dances and the Kaiserwalzer of the “waltz king” Johann Strauss Jr.—in a decadent arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg—illustrate the vitality of dance in nineteenth-century Vienna, while Debussy’s impressionistic Danses sacrée et profane and Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances encapsulate those composers’ native cultures.

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Program
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750): Orchestral Suite no. 2 in b minor, BWV 1067 (ca. 1738–1739)
Franz SCHUBERT (1797–1828): Six German Dances, D. 820 (1824)
Claude DEBUSSY (1862–1918): Danses sacrée et profane (1904)
Johann STRAUSS (1825–1899): Kaiserwalzer, op. 437 (trans. by Arnold Schoenberg) (ca. 1925)
Béla BARTÓK (1881–1945): Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 68, BB 76 (1915)
Aaron COPLAND (1900–1990): Appalachian Spring (1944)

Artists
Carol Wincenc, flute
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet
Marc Goldberg, bassoon
Gloria Chien, Gilbert Kalish, pianos
Wu Han, harpsichord
Adam Barnett-Hart, Jorja Fleezanis, Erin Keefe, Kristin Lee, Ian Swensen, Wu Jie, violins
Pierre Lapointe, Paul Neubauer, Geraldine Walther, violas
David Finckel, Dane Johansen, cellos
Scott Pingel, bass
Bridget Kibbey, harp

Wednesday, August 1

8:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $65/$55 adult; $30/$20 student
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Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Free Admission

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Image: Martha Graham and ensemble in Appalachian Spring. Courtesy of the Library of Congress