National Philharmonic: Russian Evening with Leon Fleisher National Philharmonic Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM Music Center at Strathmore

Leon Fleisher, piano
Piotr Gajewski, conductor

Leon Fleisher performs Prokofiev’s demanding left-hand piano concerto, commissioned by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s brother Paul, a concert pianist who lost his right arm in World War I. Come under the spell of Mussorgsky’s celebrated orchestral tone poem that portrays a spooky, nocturnal witches’ Sabbath, and listen to strains of Tchaikovsky’s heartbreaking final symphony.

MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathetique”

Sponsored by Ameriprise Financial.

Kids ages 7-17 are free. Please call the Strathmore Ticket Office directly at (301) 581-5100 to purchase "Kids Free" tickets. "Kids Free" tickets are not available for online purchase.

National Philharmonic will offer special free pre-concert lectures about the history and acoustics of the Music Center in Room 309 of the Education Center at 7:00PM.

Run Time: approximately 105 minutes plus 20 minute intermission.