UW–Madison Symphony Orchestra

Streaming live at https://youtu.be/2rgHQ4lWTV8

Oriol Sans, conductor
Alison Norris, student conductor

Thursday, March 25, 2021, 7:30 pm
Hamel Music Center I Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall

No in-person attendance

Pre-concert talk, 7 pm
Same streaming link as above: https://youtu.be/2rgHQ4lWTV8

A pre-recorded talk with Maureen Carr, Penn State University professor, musicologist, Stravinsky’s scholar and UW-Madison alumna; Susan C. Cook, director of the Mead Witter School of Music; and Oriol Sans, conductor of the UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra.
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Program

Dido & Aeneas Suite
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)

Duet for Two Violins and String Orchestra
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Maynie Bradley & Anna Luebke, violin

Apollon Musagète
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
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Bridging 300 years, the delicate seventeenth-century music from Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, the exciting Duet by Steve Reich, and the elegant Apollon Musagète by Igor Stravinsky share many compositional elements.

Regardless of only utilizing string instruments, each piece creates a strikingly particular soundscape. With Apollon, a composition that pays homage to the classical era with its music and to the ancient Greeks with its plot, we wish to celebrate Igor Stravinsky’s 50th anniversary of his passing.