Note - Tickets!
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Program
Germaine Tailleferre: Ballade (1922)
Andrew Staupe, piano
Claude Debussy: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra
Andrew Staupe, piano
—Intermission—
Béla Bartók: Hungarian Pictures
An Evening in the Village
Bear Dance
Melody
Slightly Tipsy
Swineherd’s Dance
Zoltán Kodály: Variations on a Hungarian Folksong (The Peacock)
16 Variations
Kornel Thomas writes: “I grew up in Hungary at a time when music education was thriving, all thanks to the music system Kodály created back in the 1940s and 50s. This meant that children not only learned an instrument but also went to solfège classes, where they learned the basics of music theory and ear training and learned how to sing through the rich tapestry of Hungarian folk song. Kodály’s Peacock Variations uses a famous folk song that summarizes Hungarian culture very well: the juxtaposition of pride/sorrow and hope/fear. The folk song in Peacock Variations is one of the fifty I learned as a child and still know by memory to this day. Both Kodály and Bartók have Hungarian idioms in their music that foreign musicians might not know about or have a hard time realizing. To us Hungarians, these idioms are like breathing air; they come so naturally, much to do with the language itself and the generations of knowledge passed down. This is something I look forward to enriching MVO with.”
Read the concert’s program online here: https://tinyurl.com/MVO-Concert-2026-04-12