DANCE

February 28th, 2025 at 7pm

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Bookended by Mel Bonis’ playful and Maurice Ravel’s manic takes on the buoyant Viennese waltz, DANCE is a celebration of emotional groove and movement. Thomas Adès offers a contemporary reworking of Frédéric Chopin’s beloved Polish mazurka, while Charli xcx remixes the iconic “360” into the hyperactive “365” on her latest album, BRAT. Modest Mussorgsky and Heitor Villa-Lobos set tragic scenes for dancing in solitude on the Russian “Trepak” and the Brazilian “Valsa da dor.” Florence Price explores the rich history of African-American dance rhythms in her solo piano suite, Dances in The Canebrakes, and Béla Bartók integrates Hungarian folk dances into his vivid Contrasts, a suite that highlights the unique ensemble of piano, violin, and clarinet.

Program

Mel Bonis: 6 Valses-Caprice

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Valsa da dor

Modest Mussorgsky: “Trepak” from Songs and Dances of Death

Béla Bartók: 6 Romanian Dances

Florence Price: Dances in The Canebrakes

Béla Bartók: Contrasts

Intermission

Johann Sebastian Bach: Gavotte I — Gavotte II ou la musette from English Suite in G minor

Arnold Schoenberg: Gavotte and Musette from Suite Op. 25

Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in A minor Op. 68 No. 2

Thomas Adès: Mazurka No. 1 Op. 27

Charli xcx arr. Meadow Bridgham: 360/365 from BRAT

Maurice Ravel: La Valse

Artists:

Alexandre Tchaykov, piano

Zhaoyuan Qin, piano

Yekaterina Lynch, soprano

Chris Cho, cello

Xenia Deviatkina-Loh, violin

Elad Navon, clarinet

Location:

1972 Thayer Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90025

Image: Henry Matisse, Dance (1910)