Get ready to put on your dancin’ shoes
as the Brooklyn Philharmonic performs at Celebrate Brooklyn on
July 14.
Brooklyn’s most famous resident orchestra (which has been playing
free summer concerts for 33 years) takes to the band shell in
Prospect Park for an evening of classical crowd-pleasers which
are sure to get the audience’s feet tapping and their bodies
swaying.
After the opening notes of Arturo Marquez’s Mexican dance-inspired
"Danzon No. 2," the orchestra – led by conductor Robert
Moody (pictured) – will run through several rhythmic showpieces
that demonstrate how the universal art form of dance is handled
by various composers.
Once Marquez’s Mexican piece ends, the program shifts to the
United States for the western frontier rhythms of "Four
Dance Episodes" from Aaron Copland’s ballet "Rodeo,"
then on to Seville, Spain, for Frenchman Georges Bizet’s famous
dance sequences from his opera "Carmen." Finally, we
travel to Russia for the folk-inspired rhythms of Stravinsky’s
balletic masterpiece, "The Firebird."
And for good measure, French mezzo-soprano Marie Lenormand will
join Maestro Moody and the orchestra for the show-stopping number
"What a Movie!" from "Trouble in Tahiti,"
Leonard Bernstein’s one-act opera from 1952.
The combination of Celebrate Brooklyn – which is now in its 28th
year – and the Brooklyn Philharmonic – which will be performing
its 27th concert as part of the festival – is an unbeatable one
during a muggy summer night in Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Philharmonic performs Marquez, Bernstein, Copland,
Bizet and Tchaikovsky on July 14 at 8 pm at the Prospect Park
band shell. Enter the park at Prospect Park West and Ninth Street.
Admission is free, but a $3 donation for Celebrate Brooklyn is
suggested. For further information, visit www.celebratebrooklyn.org
or www.brooklynphilharmonic.org.
Kevin Filipski
