Sunday, November 24, 2024, at 3 PM
Ventura First United Methodist Church
The second concert of our 2024-25 series will give you a bird’s-eye view of orchestral music spanning over 100 years. Gioachino Rossini composed 39 operas, feverishly writing four that premiered in 1812. Among them was his comic opera The Silken Ladder, whose Overture begins our concert. At the other end of our hundred-year panorama, we will hear one of Maurice Ravel’s finest works—Le Tombeau de Couperin (Couperin’s Tomb, 1917), each movement dedicated to the memory of a friend who died in World War I. The centerpiece of our concert will be Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1, published in 1858 (the middle of the Romantic Era) and featuring our own Miriam Arichea.
