The MET Orchestra

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (Seating Chart)
Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 8 PM

Program

Program Notes

Meet the Artists

“[Lang Lang is] an artist ... with great gifts.”—Times (London)

“A picture of a puppet, suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios.” Those are Stravinsky’s words describing his orchestral fantasy that evolved into the revolutionary ballet Pétrouchka. Acclaimed pianist Lang Lang joins the second half of this program to perform a grand-scale Romantic favorite: Brahms’s First Piano Concerto.

Program Details

The MET Orchestra
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Lang Lang, Piano

STRAVINSKY	Pétrouchka (1947 version)
BRAHMS	Piano Concerto No. 1
Program is approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes, including one intermission.