MainStage Concert: The Places That Inspire Us

In The Places That Inspire Us, explore music inspired by real-world settings and the emotional landscapes they evoke. The program begins with Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans, a thrilling contemporary work for chamber orchestra that channels the turbulence and strength of the sea. This work draws inspiration and its title from A Woman Speaks – a poem by Audre Lorde, and uses rhythm, lyrical melodies, and the voices of the musicians themselves to equate the changes of the natural world with the emotional resilience of the human heart. Next on the program, WHCO is joined by Ariadne Greif for Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a nostalgic meditation on childhood and place, set to the words of James Agee. Concluding our program is Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”, a sweeping tribute to the rugged romance of the Scottish Highlands.

Repertoire
Anna Clyne: Restless Oceans
Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, “Scottish”

This concert will be approximately 1hr, no intermission. Reception to follow.