CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
The Met Orchestra

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 at 3:00 PM

The MET Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Deborah Polaski, Soprano

BARTÓK The Wooden Prince, Op. 13
SCHOENBERG Erwartung

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Bartók's 1917 ballet is a sweeping drama poised on the edge between late-Romantic and modern music. In a completely different direction, Schoenberg conceived his 1909 one-person opera to illustrate, “in slow motion, everything that occurs during a single second of maximum spiritual excitement.”