INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS
Saturday, January 10, 2009  :: 8pm
Civic Center Music Hall

Barry Douglas, piano
Joel Levine, conductor

Bizet:  Symphony #1
Alfven:  Swedish Rhapsody #1 "Midsommarvaka"
Strauss, R.:  Burleske
Liszt:  Piano Concerto #1

"It would be hard to exaggerate the sheer splendor of the Irish pianist’s technique."  -- Bernard Jacobson, music critic for Chicago Daily News and www.musicweb-international.com

Barry Douglas continues to enjoy a major international solo career since 1986 when he was the first non-Russian to win the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition. Playing the Strauss Burleske and Liszt's First Piano Concerto, Douglas offers us an evening of virutoso piano performance at its finest.