Event
Fantasy: A World With No Boundaries
- Date: Saturday, 28 October 2023, 2.00pm (PST)
- Venue: Benaroya Hall — 200 University Street, Seattle, WA, United States
- Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
A musical celebration of myths, legends, and fantasies. The program opens with the overture to Prometheus by Ludwig van Beethoven (his sole full-length ballet score), based on the Greek myth, and closes with the most beloved waltz of Johann Strauss, Jr., The Blue Danube, a magical conjuration of Austria’s past, the peace and love that the river inspires, and even its mermaid inhabitants. Australian composer Maria Grenfell’s orchestral fantasy Hinemoa, based on a Maori fairytale about young lovers united by music, is heard in its first U.S. performance. Alexander Borodin’s popular “musical tableau” In the Steppes of Central Asia, an evocative vision of a desert caravan, precedes a Halloween-timed performance of the dance music (described by one commentator as “an orgiastic ballet”) from Charles Gounod’s opera Faust — a work appropriately charming and sensuous, as it accompanies the seductive enchantresses summoned forth for Faust’s pleasure by the wily Méphistophélès.
Featured non-Australian music: Beethoven, Strauss, Borodin, Gounod
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to listenerswelcome@seattlephil.org
Featured Australian Works
| Hinemoa : full orchestra by Maria Grenfell — performed by Adam Stern and Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra |
Featured artists
- Performer Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Adam Stern
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