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Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Saturday, July 29, 7:30 PM PDT
$15 – $55
The final concert will open with Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, with the Festival Chorus, and soloists Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano; Angela Moser, soprano, and Anders Froehlich, baritone. Fauré wrote of the 1888 work, “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.”
After intermission, vocal soloist mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen will sing Ravel’s rich and voluptuous Shéhérazade song cycle. The Festival Chorus will join the orchestra in Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, a choreographic symphony for orchestra and wordless chorus, sometimes described as Ravel’s orchestral masterpiece.
- Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano
- Angela Moser, soprano
- Anders Froehlich, baritone
You’ve heard music by Ravel and probably loved it. You’ve heard random gossip about this secretive composer. Now’s your chance to experience Ravel’s life and music in its historic context. With contemporary art and photographs, and 26 musical excerpts, you’ll get an overview of a composer whose creative life spanned the voluptuous conclusion of the Belle Epoque, the trauma of the First World War, and the new paths to modernism that emerged in the 20’s and 30’s. 85 years after his death, nosy biographers are still trying to understand Ravel’s mysterious private life, as inscrutable as his music is irresistible.
Written and directed by Susan Waterfall.
Art and photograph collection by Mina Cohen.
Filmed and edited by Julian Pollack.