Name: Festival Orchestra: French Romantics Debussy and Chausson
Start: 2023-08-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Benedict Music Tent

Organization

Aspen Music Festival

Conductor

David Robertson

Instrumentalist

Violinist

Luna Choi

Violin

Orchestra

The Aspen Festival Orchestra

Festival Orchestra: French Romantics Debussy and Chausson

Aspen

United States

Benedict Music Tent

Festival Orchestra: French Romantics Debussy and Chausson: An Atlas of Deep Time Adams, J. L. (+2 More)

Public

An Atlas of Deep Time

Poème, op. 25

The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra, L. 109

Approved

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

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Cornettist

Flutist

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Harper

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Musette de cour Player

Oboist

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Timpani

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Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

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Chorus master

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Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

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Stage Manager

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Music inspired by geologic time and the sea bookend Chausson’s lush and sensuous Poème featuring Dorothy DeLay Prize Winner Luna Choi.

An Atlas of Deep Time by John Luther Adams was inspired by his “desire, amid the turbulence of human affairs, to hear the older, deeper resonances of the earth… Like the geologic layers of rocks beneath our feet, the densities and textures, the instrumental and harmonic colors are always changing, yet somehow the substance always seems to be the same… The earth is 4 billion 570 million years old. An Atlas of Deep Time lasts roughly 46 minutes, which equates to about 100 million years per minute. At that tempo, the entire history of the human family is represented in the dying reverberations of the last 25 milliseconds of this music.”

Ernst Chausson wasn’t a prolific composer, but his was the most distinctive voice in French music before the advent of the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel. The Poème for violin and orchestra was inspired by a short story by Turgenev, one of the composer’s favorite authors. Two friends, one a painter and one a musician, are in love with the same woman. When she chooses the painter, the rejected musician travels in the East, returning with a mysterious wine and an Indian violin he uses to play “the song of love happy and triumphant." And as you probably guessed, the woman falls for the musician. Chausson, a modest, gentle man whose works were sometimes abused and more often ignored, was astonished at the ovation at the work’s premiere and kept repeating, “I can’t get over it.”

La Mer, Debussy’s compelling and shimmering portrayal of the ocean, was inspired by childhood memories of the sea at Cannes, summers on the Normandy coast, a terrifying storm he experienced in a small fishing boat, Turner’s paintings, and Japanese seascape prints.

Discover the artistry of this year’s Dorothy DeLay Prize Winner in this varied program!

English

Festival Orchestra: French Romantics Debussy and Chausson by Adams, J. L., Chausson, Debussy, Dom 13 Lúna 2023, Ó (2023/2023), Seoltóir David Robertson, Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, United States

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid