SYMPHONY IN 60 SERIES
Claude DEBUSSY • Clair de lune
Claude DEBUSSY • Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Emmanuel CHABRIER • Village Dance
Gabriel FAURÉ • Selections from Pelléas and Mélisande
Maurice RAVEL • Pavane for a Dead Princess
Maurice RAVEL • Selections from Mother Goose
Gonzalo Farias, conductor
Throughout the late 19th century the German Romantic style was the dominant superpower in the Western musical world. Like it or not, even composers in other countries at the time couldn’t escape its gravity. Enter the French Impressionists. Arising shortly after painters like Monet and Renoir revolutionized the visual art world, composers such as Debussy, Ravel and Fauré turned from the emotional extremes and large scales of Romanticism in favor of symbolism, atmospheric sounds, and smaller pieces. Join Gonzalo Farias and the Symphony in this world of watercolors made sound.