Stravinsky’s Firebird

Jader Bignamini, Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducts a suite from Stravinsky’s The Firebird; the music of this fairytale ballet, including its scintillating “Infernal Dance,” still feels fresh and wild. Stravinsky learned a great deal from his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov; here the MSO explores the latter’s Spanish-accented Capriccio espagnol, from its first alborada (morning song) to its final fandango. Witness a rising star as Giuseppe Gibboni, winner of the Paganini Violin Competition, performs an intoxicating violin concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.

What to Expect:

A suite from Stravinsky’s The Firebird, which Disney fans will recognize from Fantasia 2000
A vibrant violin concerto written by Wynton Marsalis of jazz fame; read Marsalis's liner notes describing movements titled “Rhapsody,” “Rondo Burlesque,” “Blues,” and finally “Hootenanny,” which he calls “a raucous, stomping and whimsical barnyard thrown-down”
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol, which is often used in pop culture, including figure skating routines, the film Brokeback Mountain, and — we can’t make this up — a 1998 Pizza Hut commercial featuring Mikhail Gorbachev

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Stravinsky’s Firebird

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