A Call for Artists

The Woodstock Symphony Orchestra will present
“PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION”
Art exhibit and associated concert
At the Woodstock Playhouse
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025

“Pictures at an Exhibition” is an orchestral composition in several movements by Russian composer, Modest Mussorgsky. Each movement is based on a picture by artist Victor Hartmann shown at the Imperial Academy of the Arts in St. Petersburg in 1868.
 

The WSO is inviting artists to create a piece, in any medium, that has a relationship to one of the movements in the piece or to the piece as a whole (titles of the movements are shown below). Works will be on display at the Playhouse Gallery, at WSO concerts and at other Playhouse events between March 22 and May 3rd, 2025. The show will be viewed by concert goers and art lovers alike.
 

The movements are:
Promenade, Gnomes, The Old Castle, Tuileries, Bydio,
The Ballet of Chicks in Their Shells, Samuel Goldberg and Schmuyle,
The Marketplace at Limoges, Catacombs, The Hut on Hen’s Legs,
The Great Wall of Kiev

Here is a link to one performance of the piece for your inspiration!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq7Qd9PSmR0

And here's a link to some information about the paintings that inspired it: https://houstonsymphony.org/mussorgsky-pictures/
(You can do a lot with the titles alone!)
Submission deadline – February 18th Intake – March 18th
If you are interested in participating, please complete the attached form to help us in planning the show. We need enough artists to ensure an interesting experience for concert-goers and art lovers alike!
 

For questions,

please contact WSO Executive Director Dana White-Marks at:
wchorchestra@aol.com
845-266-3517

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