{"id":60635,"date":"2019-05-23T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=60635"},"modified":"2019-05-26T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T14:12:26","slug":"toronto-summer-music-opening-night-beyond-borders","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/toronto-summer-music-opening-night-beyond-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Summer Music | Opening Night \u2013 Beyond Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"event-header\">\n<h2>Opening Night \u2013 Beyond Borders<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"event-content\">\n<p>Join us for a post-concert reception in the lobby for the entire audience!<\/p>\n<p>Tom Allen, host<br \/>\nAdrianne Pieczonka, soprano<br \/>\nJon Kimura Parker, piano<br \/>\nKerson Leong, violin<br \/>\nRachael Kerr, piano<br \/>\nSteven Philcox, piano<br \/>\nNew Orford String Quartet<\/p>\n<p>Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331<br \/>\nRavel: Cinq m\u00e9lodies populaires grecques (Five Popular Greek Songs)<br \/>\nSarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20<br \/>\nKreisler: Selections for violin and piano<br \/>\nChopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52<br \/>\nStrauss: Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)<br \/>\n(arr. John Greer)<\/p>\n<p>A stellar lineup of talent serves up a rich banquet of exotic cross-cultural music to give the Festival and its \u201cbeyond borders\u201d theme a spectacular launch! World-renowned Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka channels the lush, aching nostalgia of Strauss\u2019s compelling final work. Its premiere was a truly international affair. It took place in London in 1950 with a Norwegian soprano (Kirsten Flagstad), a German conductor (Wilhelm Furtw\u00e4ngler), and an English orchestra (The Philharmonia), at a concert sponsored by India\u2019s Maharajah of Mysore. Pieczonka demonstrates her stunning versatility through five charming Greek folksongs as arranged by Ravel.<\/p>\n<p>Additional selections displaying a variety of folk-music tones include a Mozart piano work that concludes with the familiar Rondo that displays the influence of Turkish military music; Spanish composer Sarasate\u2019s soulful and vivacious tribute to the astonishing virtuoso technique of Romani fiddlers; tuneful and disarming compositions and arrangements by Austria\u2019s master violinist, Fritz Kreisler; and a dramatic piano tone poem by Chopin, Poland\u2019s master composer. In the preface to his edition of Chopin\u2019s Ballades, the illustrious Franco-Swiss pianist Alfred Cortot claims that No. 4 was inspired by Polish author Adam Mickiewicz\u2019s poem The Three Budrys. It tells of three brothers whose father sends them away to find treasure, and their return with three Polish brides.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcmusic.com\/tickets\/seats\/108201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Night \u2013 Beyond Borders Join us for a post-concert reception in the lobby for the entire audience! Tom Allen, host Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano Jon Kimura Parker, piano Kerson Leong, violin Rachael Kerr, piano Steven Philcox, piano New Orford String Quartet Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331 Ravel: Cinq m\u00e9lodies populaires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5052,5513],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60734,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60635\/revisions\/60734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60635"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=60635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}