2 programs - for adults & children - exploring Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
Adults & Seniors $10 • Youth through age 18 $5
Atlantic
Symphony adds another chapter to the colorful history of Mussorgsky's Pictures
at an Exhibition, through our own "artful music" project that culminates in a
grand exhibition and performance on Opening Night.
In Pictures
Plus, adults and children connect directly to Pictures at an Exhibition with
the help of annotator Steve Ledbetter, conductor Jin Kim, and artists from the
Scituate Art Association.
Choose the activity that
fits your style:
Upstairs in
the Library, adults & teens explore Pictures in a stimulating multi-media
conversation with entertaining expert Steve Ledbetter
Downstairs, after an
intro by Jin Kim, children, teens & even adults create artwork inspired by
the movement The Gnome. Their work will be displayed in the Library for the
month and then will join the Lobby Exhibit on Opening
Night.
In 6 weeks
in 1874, Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky wrote a 10-movement suite for piano
called Pictures at an Exhibition. He was inspired by the sudden loss of a young friend,
fellow Russian artist Viktor Hartmann, and a large exhibition of Hartmann's artwork
held in his memory. Each movement alludes to a work by Hartmann, with titles as
diverse as The Old Castle, Market at Limoges, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks,
Cattle, and Catacombs. In 1922, 25
years after Mussorgsky's own early death, conductor Serge Koussevitzky
commissioned an orchestration by French composer Maurice Ravel; he later made
the first recording of it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
From the
beginning, Pictures at an Exhibition has inspired musicians and composers to
create variations for choir, chamber and symphonic orchestra; it even has been
adapted for rock, electronica and metal bands. Perhaps because many of
Hartmann's original artworks have been lost, audiences feel free to conjure
their own pictures from the whimsical titles and evocative music of each
movement.
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