The Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra welcomes soprano Marie Engle for Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine, a stirring one-act opera depicting one woman’s final phone call with her ex-lover in a struggle of unrequited love. Concluding the evening is Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 (“Italian”), a collection of impressions from his ten-month trip to Italy inspired by sunny blue skies, lively saltarello dances, religious solemnity, and timeless art and architecture.

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Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra

Northwestern University

The MSO is joined on stage by the UofM orchestra in a special side-by-side performance culminating in Mahler’s triumphant Titan Symphony.  

Mahler's Titan Symphony

Cannon Center For The Performing Arts

Schubert’s Overture in C Major in the Italian Style opens the concert; the piece was his contribution to the trend of overtures written in the style of the wildly popular Gioacchino Rossini. Huang Ruo’s Tipping Point brings listeners to the present with a timely symphony tackling the climate crisis. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s lively The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite closes the evening, written for a production of Aristophanes’s satirical ancient Greek play The Wasps.

Harvey Felder

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Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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Mahler's Titan Symphony · Memphis Symphony Orchestra

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Conductor in Symphony No. 4 (Italian) by Mendelssohn

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Conductor in La voix humaine by Poulenc

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Conductor in The Wasps by Williams

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Conductor in Overture in the Italian Style by Schubert

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Conductor in Tipping Point by Ruo

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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