National Symphony Orchestra: Itzhak Perlman, Conductor/Emmanuel Pahud, Flute

Itzhak Perlman takes the baton in a program featuring a Khachaturian masterwork transcribed for flute sensation Emmanuel Pahud.

• May 15 - 17, 2003
• Concert Hall
• 1 hour, 30 min
• $25.00 - $78.00

About the Program | Watch and Listen | Additional Resources

About the Program

Artists:

• Itzhak Perlman, conductor
• Emmanuel Pahud , flute

At home both playing the violin or on the podium, Itzhak Perlman takes the baton in a National Symphony Orchestra concert that featurs young French-Swiss artist Emmanuel Pahud—"the new flute sensation...an insightful and vital musician" (The New York Times). Perlman leads the Orchestra in the overture to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's comic opera "The Marriage of Figaro" and Antonin Dvorak's exuberant and rhaposdic Eighth Symphony, while Pahud performs Aram Ilich Khachaturian's stunning Violin Concerto, in a unique transcription for flute. Program:

MOZART - Overture to Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
KHACHATURIAN - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
	(transcribed for flute by Jean-Pierre Rampal)
DVORÁK - Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88

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Watch and Listen

• Listen to DVORAK's Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
• Listen to MOZART's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492

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Additional Resources

About the Kennedy Center NSO Classical Concerts Series

Cast and Company

Composer:
Wolfgang Mozart

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