Tupelo Symphony Orchestra, the only all professional orchestra in North Mississippi, is made up of 65-70 professional musicians from the surrounding region of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
FRENCH MASTERPIECES
Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Tupelo Civic Auditorium - Tupelo - Mississippi
Steven Byess, Conductor
Nancy Maria Balach , Soprano
University of Mississippi Chorus - Donald Trott, Director
The TSO closes the season with a sumptuous program including a gorgeous and evocative prelude by Claude Debussy, a sublime choral masterpiece by Francis Poulenc and a powerful piano classic enriched by the extraordinary aural palette of Maurice Ravel, a great orchestral composer.
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Claude Debussy
(1862-1918) |
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894)
- (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
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Francis Poulenc
(1899-1963) |
- Gloria (1950)
- Gloria in Excelsis Deo
- Laudamus Te
- Domine Deus
- Domine Fili Unigenite
- Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
- Qui Sedes ad Dexteram Patris
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INTERMISSION |
Modest Mussorgsky
(1839-1881) |
- Pictures at an Exhibition (1878)
- (Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937 in 1922)
- Promenade
- Gnomus
- Promenade - The Olde Castle
- Promenade - Tuileries
- Bydlo
- Promenade - Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells
- Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
- The Market at Limoges
- Catacombs: Sepulchrum romanum (Roman Tombs)
- Cum mortius in lingua morta (With the Dead in a Dead Language)
- The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
- The Great Gate at Kiev
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