The Minnesota Orchestra will be performing three pieces at an upcoming concert: Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev, excerpts from Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite including "Laideronnette" and "The Enchanted Garden", and Hungarian Fantasy by Franz Liszt with a student pianist. Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf uses different instruments to represent characters and introduces children to the orchestra. Ravel's excerpts are from his Mother Goose Suite based on French fairy tales. Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy was originally for piano and later arranged for piano and orchestra.

1. Performed by the
Minnesota Orchestra
Feb.28, 29 & Mar 1

2. Gives It was first
Orchestra Halleducational named the
is actually concerts for
2 “Minneapolis
The MN separate 85,000 youth Symphony
Orchestra
Orchestra buildings annually
is Orchestra”
Hall opened
connected by a
109 years Changed it’s
in 1974.
old! The hallway. name to the
first concert Welcome to the MN Orchestra “Minnesota
was in 1903 Orchestra”
in 1968
Over 400,000
people come
to their Has toured
concerts each Orchestra the world
year Hall is giving
The lobby concerts
famous for
will be rebuilt
the “cubes”
Has had 10 in 2012. The
Has premiered that are in 98
Has
principal hall will musicians &
and/or the walls and
conductors remain the performs
commissioned ceiling.
& many same. over 200
over 300 new
associate concerts
compositions
conductors each year.

3. Orchestra Hall
The Outside…
the pictures on the outside of
the building change from
time to time.

4. Orchestra
Hall -
The Stage
Orchestra Hall -
The Auditorium –
with over 2,400 seats

5. The NEW Orchestra Hall – opening in 2013
The Hall will remain the same. Only the Lobby will change.

6. What we will be hearing….
Peter and the Wolf
by Sergei Prokofiev
Mother Goose Suite
(Excerpts) – by Maurice Ravel
Hungarian Fantasy
by Franz Liszt

7. Sergei Prokofiev
April 23, 1891 – March 5, 1953
Born in Ukraine/Russia.
Was a child prodigy.
Studied piano as a young child.
Composed first piano piece at age 5.
Wrote his first opera at age 9.
By age 12 had written two operas.
Entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory at age
13. By then had written 4 operas, a symphony,
two sonatas and many piano pieces.
Wrote 133 works.
Died from a stroke.

8. Written in 1936
Written as a symphony for
children and to introduce
children to the orchestra
Prokofiev wrote both the words
and the music
Each character has a theme and
an instrument
Written in just 2 weeks
Debuted on May 2, 1936

9. Peter & The Wolf Characters
Grandfather:
Bird: Flute Bassoon
Hunters: Wolf: French Horns
Tympani
Duck
:
Oboe
Cat: Clarinet Peter: Strings

10. Born in France, near the Spanish border. His
family moved to Paris where he grew up.
At 7 his father encouraged him to take piano
lessons
At 14, entered the Paris Conservatory to
study music. Studied there for 15 years.
Always loved Spanish music, and it
influenced his writing.
Was a soldier in World War I
First came to America in 1928
Had a terrible automobile accident in 1932
and never regained his creative spirit.
Died from a brain hemorrhage.

11. Laideronnette –
Empress of the Pagoda
Story from a French Fairy Tale
Part of a larger collection
called “The Mother Goose
Suite” by Maurice Ravel
The French tales are very
different from the American
versions
This fountain may be similar to
the one Laideronnette used.

12. Mother Goose Suite
(Excerpts) – by Maurice Ravel
Five separate pieces
describing fairy
tales, written by
French authors.
Thefive movements: Sleeping Beauty Pavane,
Little Tom Thumb,
Laideronnette (Empress of the Pagoda),
The Conversations of Beauty and the Beast,
The Enchanted Garden.
Was originally written In 1911 it was We will be hearing the
in 1908-1910 for piano rewritten for LAIDERONNETTE &
– four hands, two orchestra and later The ENCHANTED
players turned into a ballet. GARDEN

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prodigy.
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happiness to
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Oct. 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886

14. Hungarian Fantasy
by Franz Liszt
Originally this piece was written as
part of his “Hungarian Rhapsodies”.
Rewritten as a piece for piano and orchestra.
Premiered on June 1, 1853.
This is Liszt’s only Fantasy for piano and orchestra.
Austin Frohmander– A senior from Blaine High
School will be playing the piano part.