LEONIDAS KAVAKOS conducts
ALEXANDER KERR violin

RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess)
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition, arranged by Ravel

You’re invited to Mussorgsky’s musical “gallery crawl,” where you’ll encounter the titular pictures on exhibit, ten in all, plus “traveling music” in-between. Special highlights include the opening “Promenade,” as you stride into the gallery; the whimsical unhatched baby chicks pecking their way out of their shells; spooky Parisian “Catacombs;” and “The Great Gate of Kiev,” shaking you with the resounding pealing of bells in the grand finale. Artist-in-Residence Leonidas Kavakos takes the podium at this concert and leads our Concertmaster Alexander Kerr in Prokofiev’s Concerto that both sparkles and dances with vibrantly colored passages, ending in a tumultuous flurry of notes.