2nd Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts

Works by wonderful female composers feature in this season's series of symphonic concerts. Salome, Ophelia and Cleopatra are the French composer Mel Bonis' Femmes de Légende, plucked from her piano cycle of the same name, written more than 50 years ago, which draws an arc from French romanticism to impressionism, and orchestrated. Her real name was Mélanie, but she published her works under the pseudonym Mel, because it wasn't deemed fitting for ...