Orchestra Spotlight

Thu Nov 9 — Fri Nov 10, 2023

Orchestra Hall

~2 hours, including intermission

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This unique conductorless program will showcase the Orchestra’s musicians in smaller-ensemble combinations, with individual players taking charge from their regular spots onstage, performing works by Fauré, Ravel, Bizet and more. You'll instantly recognize several familiar and glorious melodies in Carmen Suite for Percussion and Strings, an arrangement of Bizet’s beloved opera. This virtuosic arrangement—a popular hit in the 1960s—will amuse, delight and entertain with its dramatic reorchestration and menagerie of percussion instruments. Also on the program, a few late romantic French gems: Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess and Fauré's Sicilienne from Pelléas and Mélisande.

On why this concert is her pick

An orchestra is essentially a large chamber music ensemble, and working together in this way further hones our ears and ensemble skills, demanding that we rely even more on one another...”

Concertmaster Erin Keefe