Mariinsky Orchestra to perform in the U.S.

Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg conducted by Valery Gergiev, 27 October to 1 November to take a tour in the U.S., accents tour with works by Richard Strauss, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Rodion Shchedrin be. So, in Ann Arbor, on 27 in the Concert Hall of the University of Michigan Offer October "Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss, Dmitri Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto with Denis Matsuev at the piano and "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky. The next day, the same concert will be performed in Newark. Then the orchestra will give two concerts in Chapel Hill, the Memorial Hall of the University of North Carolina. The program includes the U.S. premiere of Matthias Pinscher and Rodion Shchedrin, and the music of Shostakovich and Strauss. On the last day of October, the concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, where the band performed regularly in the last few seasons, will be given to works by Berlioz, Mahler and Tchaikovsky. The concert this year - highlights from the ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse" Shchedrin, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony and "Heldenleben" by Strauss. HBA News