Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 PM in the Lower Lobby.

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Andreas Oeste, oboe, 2015 Concerto Competition Winner

Continuing the celebration of Vítězslava Kaprálová’s centenary with performances of her colorful Suite en miniature (American Premiere) and Prélude de Noël, which was first performed for a radio broadcast to occupied Czechoslovakia on Christmas Eve, 1939. Concerto Competition winner Andreas Oeste plays Christopher Rouse’s scintillating Oboe Concerto. The program concludes with Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky’s piano work reinvented through the colorful orchestration of Maurice Ravel.