Cellist

Eminent English conductor Sir Mark Elder returns to Symphony Hall for the first time since 2011 to lead a program full of whimsy, fantasy, and folklore. Opening the program, Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose ballet score began as a suite of children’s piano pieces, each movement illustrating an iconic tale. Next is the American premiere of Elena Langer’s The Dong with a Luminous Nose, a setting of Edward Lear’s delightful “nonsense poem” written for the BSO and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which gave the first performance in March 2023 featuring BSO principal cello Blaise Déjardin as soloist with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Antonín Dvořák’s The Noonday Witch is based on a much darker Czech folktale. Czech composer Leoš Janáček’s energetic, masterful Sinfonietta closes the concert.

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Sir Mark Elder conducts Ravel, Langer, Dvořák, and Janáček with Blaise Déjardin, cello and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Boston Symphony Hall

Manhattan School of Music’s public programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Blaise Déjardin

Cellist

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Past events

14 - 16 Mar, 2024

Sir Mark Elder conducts Ravel, Langer, Dvořák, and Janáček with Blaise Déjardin, cello and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus · Boston Symphony Orchestra

Jan 29, 2024

Cello Master Class: Blaise Déjardin · Manhattan School of Music

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