Pictures at an Exhibition

A UNIQUE BLEND OF SOUND & SIGHT for your next concert!

Pictures at an Exhibition: Gallery
The familiar theme of the promenade repeats
throughout the score as we enter into the world of art.

Red Herring Productions has designed an original shadow puppet play to accompany Ravel's orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." The result is stunning animated visual poetry that enhances the delicate and powerful musical score. The moving images resonate with the documented works of Victor Hartmann, whose sketches inspired Mussorgsky's composition.

Through a modern adaptation of traditional shadow puppetry, Red Herring uses scrolling backgrounds drawn onto acetate transparencies and manipulates opaque jointed figures on overhead projectors. The piece requires minimal technical capabilities.

Pictures in an Exhibition: MinstralPictures in an Exhibition: Lovers
A young minstrel woos his love through his dulcet playing in Il Vecchio Castello.
Pictures in an Exhibition: Tuileries
 Waiting for the puppet show to begin
in the Tuileries Garden.
Pictures in an Exhibition: Ox
An ox cart appearing in the distance
as the music starts to build in Bydro.
Pictures in an Exhibition: GatePictures in an Exhibition: Color Gate
The sun slowly rises over The Gates of Kiev in the rousing finale.