Saturday, November 3, 3:00 pm/8:00 pm, National Heritage Museum
Conductor's talk one hour before each performance
First Sight and Sound concert - a special multimedia production featuring photos from the Polaroid Collections.
Jonathan McPhee, conductor
| Mascagni | Intermezzo, Cavalleria Rusticana (with photos) |
| Mendelssohn | Scherzo, A Midsummer Night's Dream (with photos) |
| Schoenberg | Verklärte Nacht |
| Bizet | Symphony No. 1 |
Mascagni's popular Intermezzo is prelude to a duel between rival lovers in the opera Cavalleria Rusticana, while Mendelssohn's Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream leads a light and merry chase through the fairy forest of lovers Oberon and Titania. The lovers' forest is revisited in Schoenberg's great masterpiece Verklärte Nacht, but this time in all-out post-Wagnerian fashion, where a man and woman walk through a dark forest on a moonlit night and experience the pangs of confession, reflection and the transcendent radiance of unwavering love. Capping it all off is Bizet's joyfully elegant Symphony No. 1, an ebullient and classical close.
