Guest Conductor Alvaro Cassuto

Pianist Barbara Nissman

Friday, August 19, 2005 • 8 p.m.

Guest conductor Alvaro Cassuto is Portugal's foremost conductor. He has conducted many of the world's leading orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. In 1968, he established himself in New York after being invited by the legendary Leopold Stokowski to become assistant conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra. Folowing his debut at Avery Fischer Hall, he won the coveted Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood. He is currently Music Director of the Orquestra do Algarve in Portugal.

Pianist Barbara Nissman wil make sparks fly when she plays the flamboyant Totentanz (Dance of Death) by Franz Liszt.

Ms. Nissman is described by Eugene Ormandy, who helped launch her career, as "endowed with an unprecedented technique and a great ability of interpretation." The second half of the program features Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique, a wid musical tale of love and obsession that ends with its own "dance of death."

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