Name: Poems And Portraits
Start: 2025-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Meridian Arts Centre

Admin

Kindred Spirits Orchestra

Direction d'orchestre

Kristian Alexander

Orchestra

Piano

Dmitri Levkovich

Poems And Portraits

Toronto

Canada

Meridian Arts Centre

George Weston

Poems And Portraits: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L 86 Debussy (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Concerto pour piano n° 1

Symphonie n° 7 en ut majeur, op. 60

Saileshwaran Thirumurthy

Valide

Basse

Instrumentalist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Compositeur

Mise en scène

Livret

Décors

Costumes

Chorégraphie

Lumières

Danse

Acteur

Direction de choeur

Video

Dramaturgie

Traduction

Répétiteur

Maquillage

En charge de la production

Coiffure

Autre

Stage Manager

Choeur

Orchestre

Poet

Coach vocal

Prof

Photographer

Diffusion

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Contralto

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Contre-ténor

Baryton-basse

Baryton

Ténor

Soprano

Parlé

Voix d'enfant

Rôle muet

Alto

Continuo

Pierre Boulez describes Debussy’s symphonic poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun as one of the earliest examples of musical modernism. Musical devices such as whole-tone (six-note) scales, pentatonic (five-note) scales, and abundant chromaticism create a dreamlike state typically associated with Debussy’s impressionism. Dmitri Levkovich performs Bartók’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1. In this work Bartok often deploys the piano in a manner that is percussive rather than melodic: his programming notes state that the percussion instruments should be placed directly beside the piano. The concert concludes with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, composed at the height of World War Two, as the German army laid siege to Leningrad. Shostakovich himself suggested that the symphony does not explicitly depict German aggressors, but rather the evil of totalitarianism; this did not stop others from describing the symphony as “a symbol of cooperation and spiritual unity.”

English

Poems And Portraits by Debussy, Bartók, Shostakovich, Du (2025/2025), Chef d'orchestre Kristian Alexander, Meridian Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada

Crédits de représentation (Distribution et équipe de production )

Ensemble

Programme, À Propos & Synopsis

Photos

Lectures complémentaires

Dates et lieux de représentation

Salles