Channing Yu, conductor
Kevin Ahfat, piano
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs
RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major
MUSSORGSKY (orch. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition
The Mercury Orchestra, national winner of the 2010 American Prize in Orchestral Performance, celebrates the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth. The concert opens with the jaunty and plaintive Alborada del gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester), from Ravel’s Miroirs, a quintet of piano tableaux. The evocative, lyrical Piano Concerto for the Left Hand was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, a concert pianist who had lost his right arm in World War I. The performance closes with Ravel's masterful and colorful orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, originally a set of piano pieces inspired by the paintings of Viktor Hartmann.
Featuring Kevin Ahfat, winner of the 2025 Fou Ts’ong International Concerto Competition, sponsored by the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts.
The concert will end at approximately 8:55 PM. There will be one intermission.
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
30 Gainsborough St., Boston, Massachusetts
Free admission; no tickets required. Suggested donation $10 at the door.
Age 6 and under not admitted.
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