Evening Concert

Tonight’s featured works on “The New York Philharmonic This Week” are prompted by “Dance”

 

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”.  You’ll hear Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Ginastera’s “Dances from the Ballet ‘Estancia’”. Also on the program George Benjamin’s “Dance Figures: Nine Choreographic Scenes for Orchestra”. 

Monday March 5: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-23)

Benjamin, Debussy, and Ginastera

George Benjamin: (b. 1960): Dance Figures: Nine Choreographic Scenes for Orchestra (2004)

Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)

Ginastera: Danzas del Ballet Estancia (Dances from the Ballet Estancia), Op. 8bis

[NYP fill: Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss Alan Gilbert]

[NYP fill: Tchaikovsky: Selections from Swan Lake Alan Gilbert]