Watch highlighted works from Ryan Francis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, and David Bruce at The Times Center in April 2008.Metropolis presents the world premiere of Ryan Francis: Piano Concerto with pianist Anna Polonsky.
Also on the program, three diverse masterpieces of the 20th Century that taken in as a whole, reveal a dramatic series of unfolding vistas of color and sensual images: Maurice Ravel's Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Esa-Pekka Salonen's Five Images from Sappho with soprano Kiera Duffy, and Erik Satie's twenty brilliant thumbnail sketches, Sports et Divertissements, in an ingenious arrangement for chamber orchestra by London-based composer, David Bruce, and narrated by master storyteller, Mike Daisey.
Also go behind-the-scenes with Mike Daisey and David Bruce discussing the iconic sketches of Erik Satie.
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