Featuring the first performance of Eric Zeisl's Moon Portraits since 1936, Paul Schoenfield's piano concerto Four Parables, and Arnold Schoenberg's Five Pieces.

Repertoire:

Arnold Schoenberg

Five Pieces, Op. 16 (1909; re-orchestrated 1949) 17'

I.   Vorgefüle (Premonitions)

II.  Vergangenes (Yesteryears)

III. Farben (Colors)

IV. Peripetie (Turning Point)

V.  Das obligate Rezitativ (The Obligatory Recitative)

Shulamit Ran (b. 1949)

Voices: Concerto for a flutist with orchestra (2000) 16'

I.   Quasi Passacaglia

II.  Voice of the Wood

III. Big Bands, Little Bands

William Adams, flutes (UCLA MM 2023)

Intermission

Eric Zeisl

Mondbilder (Moon Portraits) for baritone and orchestra (1928) 14'

I.   Der Mond steht da (The moon is there)

II.  Eine goldene Sichel (A Golden Sickle)

III. Groß über schweigenden Wäldern (Large over silent forests)

IV. Durch die Abendwolken fliegt ein Bumerang (A boomerang flies through the evening clouds)

Jared Jones, baritone (UCLA MM '18)

Paul Schoenfield

Four Parables: concerto for piano and orchestra (1982-83) 29'

I.   Rambling Till the Butcher Cuts Us Down

II.  Senility's Ride

III. Elegy

IV. Dog's Heaven

Inna Faliks, piano (UCLA faculty)

This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established a generous endowment at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to make programs like this possible. We are proud to celebrate this program as part of the 2024 - 25 Dobrow Series.