Violist Cynthia Phelps and cellist Carter Brey are the soloists in Strauss’ “Don Quixote” on the “Evening Concert”
Also on the program: "Ein Heldenleben" and Bettison's "Threaded Madrigals".
Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Beethoven’s “Emperor Piano Concerto” on the “Evening Concert”
He performs with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra led by Daniel Harding.
A Richard Strauss tone poem double-bill on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Tilting at windwills, it's "Don Quixote" by Strauss, with "Ein Heldenleben" (A Hero's Life) as the 'double' of this double-billing.
Tonight’s “Evening Concert” features music by Strauss, Bartok, and Michael Tilson Thomas
"I am Richard Strauss". That's an exact quote from the composer heard by US troops when he answered the knock on his door by US troops during WWII.
A “Sitar Concerto”? Yes. Indeed. On tonight’s Evening Concert from Los Angeles
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music. The 20th C. master of the instrument best known in the West was Ravi Shankar (d. 2012).