On Sunday, September 29, at Sieminski Theatre in Basking Ridge, NJFO presents “Picture This! Imagery in Music,” where Tan’s extraordinary cello concerto is paired dramatically with Modest Mussorgsky’s musical paintings Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Yu.)
“Pictures at an Exhibition – Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky‘s most famous work – is a series of 10 sketches featuring gnomes, laborious oxen, ancient catacombs, castles and more. It is music so iconic that it has spurned countless orchestral arrangements,” continued Wroe. “Now we are thrilled to present Chinese/Australian composer Julian Yu’s take on Mussorgsky’s original, bringing the pictures to life with vibrant western and Chinese orchestral effects to create, perhaps, the most imaginative of all the arrangements.”
"Picture This! Imagery in Music" has been made possible, in part, through the generous support from the NJ State Council on the Arts and from The Angels of Fellowship, a group of dedicated music lovers from central New Jersey led by David Badertscher, Carole Banfield, Don and Barbara Berlin, Elta and James Johnston, Ron and Marylyn Straight and Gary and Helga Westerhoff.
Meet our soloist: Mo Mo began his cello studies with Professor Song Tao at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of 6, and later with the legendary Brazilian-American cellist Aldo Parisot at Yale School of Music. His accolades include top prizes at international competitions such as the 2016 Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China, and the 2017 Koussevitzky Young Artist Award in New York. His other mentors includes Mula Na, Laurence Lesser, and Philippe Muller.
Program
Tan Dun
The Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon Concerto
Featuring Mo Mo, cello
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (Arr. Yu)
Artists
Mo Mo Soloist
David Wroe Conductor
New Jersey Festival Orchestra
