Moussorgsky Music Will Be Heard, 'Seen'

Eye and ear will be jointly stimulated at 3 p.m. this afternoon in the Paine Music Hall where a piano concert of Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" will be accompanied by slides of the paintings that the musical sketches illustrate.

Alfred V. Frankenstein, music and art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle with the Summer School Faculty, will provide a lecture commentary. He discovered the Hartmann pictures which Moussorgsky saw in St. Petersberg 75 years ago, after they had been considered lost for several years.

Original Arrangement

More frequently performed in the arrangement of Maurice Ravel, the score will be played by pianist Reah Sadowsky as originally written by the Russian composer. She has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has recently returned from a Latin American concert tour.

The musical picture themes, interrupted by a well-known "promenade" motif, illustrate "The Great Gate of Kiev," "A Peasant's Wagon," and the "Tuileries Gardens," among others.