Minnesota Orchestra: some French connections

This week, the Minnesota Orchestra welcomes guest conductor Ludovic Morlot and pianist Lise de la Salle. Both artists are French, and they'll perform a program that includes two works by French composer Maurice Ravel. Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 rounds out the program.

Ravel — who, according to local lore, once changed trains at St. Paul's Union Depot in the 1920s while touring the U.S. — wrote his Piano Concerto after being inspired by a new kind of music he heard everywhere on the streets of Roaring '20s Paris: American jazz.

Pianist Lise de la Salle, who performs as the soloist on Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major, was last in the Twin Cities last year, when she performed a sold-out recital at Macalester College in St. Paul. Conductor Ludovic Morlot, meanwhile, has been music director of the Seattle Symphony since 2011.

Join host Brian Newhouse for the live broadcast of this concert on Friday, April 28, at 8 p.m.

Concert Program

RAVEL
Suite of Five Pieces from Mother Goose (Ma Mere l'Oye)
*Please note: this is a repertoire change from the originally programmed Sounds, Space, Movement by Dutilleux

RAVEL
Piano Concerto in G major

PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 5

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