PASSION MEETS PRECISION
Thomas Heuser, conductor

Julia Perry, Short Piece for Orchestra (1952)
Bela Bartok, Hungarian Peasant Songs (1933)
Side by Side with Student Musicians
Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major (1944)

Twentieth century musical expression became a highly personal vernacular. Julia Perry wrote music that echoes Stravinsky, even as a Kentucky native. The Hungarian born Bartok uses folk melodies as his basis, and the sound of Prokofiev seems both radical and completely natural. Prepare for a musical journey into three great musical minds.