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6:00 PM MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018
MARTIN THEATRE
LEON FLEISHER,
piano
KATHERINE JACOBSON FLEISHER,
piano
ARGUS QUARTET
STELLA CHEN,
violin
‡
JASON ISSOKSON,
violin
DANA KELLEY,
viola
JOANN WHANG,
cello
KIT POLEN,
double bass
†
BACH
“Sheep May Safely Graze” from the “Birthday Cantata”
(arr. Petri)
Leon Fleisher
KIRCHNER
For the Left Hand
Leon Fleisher
MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 12
(for piano and string quintet)
(arr. Lachner)
Allegro
Andante
Rondo: Allegretto
Leon Fleisher
;
Argus Quartet
;
Kit Polen
–Intermission–
SCHUBERT
Fantasy in F minor, D. 940
(for four-hands piano)
Allegro molto moderato—Largo—Allegro vivace—
Con delicatezza—Tempo I
Leon Fleisher
;
Katherine Jacobson Fleisher
RAVEL
La valse
(for four-hands pianos)
(arr. Garban)
Leon Fleisher
;
Katherine Jacobson Fleisher
†
Ravinia debut
‡
Stella Chen is substituting for Clara Kim at this performance.
Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of
Sponsor
Jo and Newton Minow
.
Happy 90th Birthday, Leon Fleisher!
CIPA DICHTER,
piano
Cipa Dichter was born in Brazil to Polish-Rus-
sian parents and began piano lessons at age 6.
She made her professional debut at age 16 with
the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra and soon
moved to the United States to study at The Juil-
liard School. There she met Misha Dichter while
studying with Rosina Lhévinne in the 1960s,
and they began to frequently collaborate on Mo-
zart’s piano works. They made their first joint
appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972, four
years after they were married, playing Mozart’s
Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365. The Dichters’
first joint recording—a three-disc album of the
complete four-hands piano works by Mozart, as
well as four-hand arrangements by Busoni and
Grieg—was rereleased in 2009 by Musical Heri-
tage Society after being named Recording of the
Year in 2005 by
Music Web International
. They
appear regularly at many summer festivals, in-
cluding Aspen, Mostly Mozart, the Hollywood
Bowl, Caramoor, and Ravinia, where in 2009
they gave the world premiere of Mendelssohn’s
four-hand piano setting of a collection of his
solo-piano
Songs Without Words
. The Dich-
ters have also performed in the music capitals
of France, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland
as well as the major cities of the United States
and Canada with such orchestras as the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Chicago Symphony
Orchestras. They have brought to the concert
stage many previously neglected works in the
two-piano and four-hands piano repertoires,
including the world premieres of Robert Starer’s
Concerto for Two Pianos and the first move-
ment of Shostakovich’s two-piano reduction of
his Symphony No. 13 (“Babi Yar”). Misha and
Cipa Dichter first appeared together at Ravinia
in 1974, and tonight marks their 23rd season at
the festival as a duo.
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