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Las Vegas Philharmonic performs an international smorgasbord of music in its second concert of the season, Passport To The World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music Director Donato Cabrera leads the orchestra in well-known classics including Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Greensleeves, Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 and Debussy’s Claire de Lune

 

LAS VEGAS (September 17, 2015)-  The Las Vegas Philharmonic performs its second concert of the 2015-16 season on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. in Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center.  The program Passport To The World will feature ten familiar classical selections from composers representing different parts of the globe.  Prior to the performance, Music Director Donato Cabrera will host his Classical Conversation at 6:30 p.m. in Reynolds Hall for patrons interested in learning more about the music and history behind the works being performed that evening.

 

The orchestra will open the concert with selections by two Russian composers, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Procession of the Nobles” from the opera-ballet Mlada, which features an energetic display by the brass and percussion, and Glière’s most well-known work “Russian Sailor’s Dance” from the ballet, The Red Poppy.  Next, the orchestra performs Dvořák’s second Slavonic Dance, which reflects the Bohemian spirit through alternating slow and fast passages, followed by Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Greensleeves, a nationalistic piece that pays homage to the English countryside through lyrical string and flute passages.  Other works showcased in the evening’s program include the popular graduation march, Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, followed by Falla’s Spanish “Ritual Fire Dance” from the ballet El amor brujo. The second half of the concert includes two selections by French composer Claude Debussy, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair and Claire de Lune, followed by Sibelius’s fiery Finlandia.  Passport To The World concludes with Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” from the play Peer Gynt, a Norwegian piece featured in several popular movies today in which the main theme slowly builds in volume and tempo to the very end.

 

Ticket PricesTickets to the October 24^th Passport To The World concert can be purchased as a part of the Series III five-concert subscription package, starting at $130, or individually at the $26, $46, $66 and $96 price levels.  Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased through The Smith Center Box Office, phone 702.749.2000 or online at lvphil.org.  In addition, the Las Vegas Philharmonic is offering two new concert packages this season; the Flex Passport, priced at $300, offers patrons the opportunity to purchase six seats to redeem at a later date for the concert(s) of their choice and the Sunday Matinee 4-Pack, starting at $142, offers patrons four Sunday 2 p.m. performances during the orchestra’s 2015-16 season.