This timeless music by Debussy, Faure, Ravel and Bizet will be the focal point of our program as we explore the richness of that amazing era.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Paris was a hotbed of artistic creativity. Influenced by painters and poets, composers sought a new expressive language, a language with the rough edges removed and full of new colors.
The Program
Faure: Masques et Bergamasques
Debussy: Danses sacre et profane
Ravel: Pavane pour un infante defunte Le Tombeau de Couperin Ma Mere L’Oye (Mother Goose)
Faure: Pelleas et Melisande
Bizet: Symphony in C