Angela and Chopin


Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Macky Auditorium, CU Campus, Boulder
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Butterman, conductor
Angela Cheng, piano

Panufnik–Hommage à Chopin 
Chopin–Piano Concerto No. 2 in f minor 
Bizet–Symphony in C Major 

We celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth with a musical homage to this ambitious composer written by Panufnik, a Polish composer, and Chopin’s second piano concerto. Chopin wrote this youthful concerto, to be performed by longtime Boulder favorite Angela Cheng, when he was 20 years old. Bizet’s symphony is a student work, written when he was only 17! Unpublished, unknown and not performed until the 1930s, this piece by the man who wrote the famous opera Carmen is a lively, tuneful, charming work that will be recognizable to many.

Read the Mar. 14 Daily Camera article with a concert preview and interview with our new Executive Director, Kevin Shuck.

Catch a free, 30-minute talk on this concert by Don Campbell, world-renowned author of The Mozart Effect, at 6:30 p.m. at Macky.

 

Thanks to our concert sponsors: Roche Colorado and Colorado Capital Bank


Watch Michael Butterman's video preview of this program celebrating 200 years of Chopin: