Journey through the Museum: Pictures at an Exhibition

In a concert inspired by art, come see and hear the visual journey walked by Modest Mussorgsky as he celebrated the artistic exhibition of his dear friend Viktor Hartmann.

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Watercolour of three men in the Paris catacombs, one holding a lantern, skulls stacked along the walls — Viktor Hartmann, The Paris Catacombs. Hartmann is in the picture, with Vasily Kenel and a guide holding the lantern. Watercolour, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

Music: Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. About 33 minutes. Promenade · The Gnome · Promenade · The Old Castle · Promenade · Tuileries · Bydło · Promenade · Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks · Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle · The Market at Limoges · Catacombs · With the Dead in a Dead Language · The Hut on Hen’s Legs · The Great Gate of Kiev My guess: Ravel’s orchestration, the one in your CV and in your May concert at UNM. If you use another, tell me, and the orchestra line changes with it.
Orchestra: 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes and English horn, 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 2 bassoons and contrabassoon, alto saxophone; 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, percussion, celesta, 2 harps and strings.
On stage: This concert requires a screen above the orchestra.
Told by: Kǎrin Hendrickson, from the podium. My guess: you tell the story yourself, from the podium. If it’s an actor or a narrator, tell me who.
Length: Concerts can be adjusted to run within a window of 60–⁠90 minutes, and are performed without an interval.
The rest of the evening: Missing: the rest of the evening. The music above fills only part of it; what else is played, and what is said, goes here.