Patrick Savage – Unveiled: Icons of Cinema

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Presented by Quartz Music

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Immerse yourself in rare premieres and cinematic wonders.

You are invited to experience the world premieres of rarely-heard classical masterpieces by iconic Golden Age Hollywood composers. Following this, delight in musical gems from film scores by Saint-Saëns, Copland, Shostakovich, Schnittke, and John Williams.

Don’t miss your opportunity to immerse yourself in some of the rarest cinematic music by film composers.

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Artists

Patrick Savage violin
Konrad Olszewski piano

Program

John Williams
Prologue to Fiddler on the Roof

Franz Waxman
Four Scenes of Childhood

Robert Russell Bennett
Hexapoda – Five Studies in Jitteroptera

Bernard Herrmann
Pastoral (Twilight) Opus 2

Miklos Rozsa
Variations on A Hungarian Peasant Song

Interval

Camille Saint-Saëns arr. Patrick Savage
Music from L’Assassinat du Duc de Guise

Aaron Copland
Our Town Suite for solo piano

Dmitri Shostakovich
Romance and Spring Waltz from The Gadfly

Alfred Schnittke
Polka from Census List

John Williams
Devil’s Dance from The Witches of Eastwick

Venue