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Symphonic Poetry: Magic, Fire & Light

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Classical Collection, Classical Series
In a program of vivid orchestral storytelling, Music Director Jonathon Heyward conducts Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Scriabin’s Prometheus: Poem of Fire, alongside Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2 and Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain. Features George Li (piano) and the University of Maryland Concert Choir.

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Jonathon Heyward, conductor
George Li, piano
University of Maryland Concert Choir
  Jason Max Ferdinand, director

DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2
MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain
SCRIABIN Prometheus: Poem of Fire

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In this spellbinding program, Music Director Jonathon Heyward illuminates four symphonic portraits, drawing on the unique qualities of each instrument to create vivid, dramatic, and colorful effects. Scriabin’s Prometheus: Poem of Fire features an epic orchestra, choir, piano soloist, and color projections for a truly mesmerizing experience.

  • Prometheus's score calls for a "color organ," which provides directions to synchronize colorful projections as the orchestra performs. Scriabin allegedly experienced a phenomenon called synesthesia, in which sounds also translated visually as colors.
  • Two pieces on the program were featured in Walt Disney's Fantasia: Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice tells a cautionary tale about using wisdom when wielding the power of magic, and Mussorgsky's Night On Bald Mountain evokes a Witches' Sabbath as depicted in Russian literature.
  • Composer Igor Stravinsky described Daphnis et Chloé as "not only Ravel’s best work, but also one of the most beautiful products of all French music."