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Finale, too, for maestro Victor Yampolsky
Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra with Victor Yampolsky conducting. (Peninsula Music Festival)
FISH CREEK, Wis.
(WFRV)
Peninsula Music Festival this week will present its final
three concerts of its 67th season of classical music concerts and
say farewell to its maestro.
Performances start at 7:30 p.m. in Door Community
Auditorium. Info: musicfestival.com.
This will be the 34th – and final – season for
artistic director and conductor Victor Yampolsky.
Yampolsky is retiring from the festival but will continue in
music. He is keeping his full-time job at Northwestern University as professor
of music performance. Yampolsky has guest conducting dates lined up throughout
the year, including one Sept. 28 with the new Weidner Philharmonic in the
Weidner Center for the Performing Arts of the University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay.
An overview of the third and final week:
Tuesday, Aug. 20: “On the Danube;” Yaniv Dinur, guest
conductor
+ Franz Liszt: “Les Preludes, S. 97”
+ Zoltan Kodaly: “Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, ‘The
Peacock’”
+ Bela Bartok: “Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117,” guest artist
Bella Hristova
Thursday, Aug. 22: “Dvorak Mini-Festival III”
+ Antonin Dvorak: Overture to “Othello, Opus 93”
+ Sergei Rachmaninoff: “Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp
minor,” guest artist Stewart Goodyear
+ Jean Sibelius: “Valse Triste, Opus 44, No. 1”
+ Jean Sibelius: “Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Opus 52”
Saturday, Aug. 24: “Festival Finale”
+ Sergei Prokofiev: “Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Opus
16,” guest artist Stewart Goodyear
+ Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky: “Symphony No. 4 in f minor, Opus
36”
Consisting of professional musicians from widespread places, the festival is the only one of its kind in Northeastern Wisconsin. Represented are symphony and opera orchestras such as of Toronto, Montreal, Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Omaha, Milwaukee, Houston, Dallas and Chicago.
Looking back, here is my review of the Aug. 13 concert: https://www.wearegreenbay.com/critic-at-large/warren-gerds-critic-at-large-review-classical-concert-baroque-and-beyond-golden-in-fish-creek/.
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