"Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite: lusciously sensual music that will take your imagination to a warm, exotic fantasy world far away from our cold Rochester winter! Oh yeah...those two pieces have fabulous flute solos!"
--Rebecca Gilbert, Principal Flute
An Evening in Paris
Jan. 30 and Feb. 1; Fabien Gabel, guest conductor; Philippe Quint, violin
Program:
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3
RAVEL Une barque sur l’océan (A Boat on the Ocean)
RAVEL Tzigane
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite (1919)
Watch an analysis of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, hosted by Leonard Bernstein.
Watch an excerpt from the Firebird Suite performed by Michael Tilson Thomas and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra:
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